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DIED. Marjorie Lawrence, 71, Australian-born soprano who resumed her career in a wheelchair after being stricken by infantile paralysis in 1941; of a heart attack; in Little Rock, Ark. Lawrence specialized in Wagnerian roles and after her illness made a triumphant comeback at the Metropolitan Opera in 1943 singing Venus in Tannhauser while seated on a divan. She detailed her struggles with illness in her 1949 autobiography, Interrupted Melody, and in subsequent years taught opera at several U.S. colleges...
Sandwiched between Hackett's impressive double was Mack's triumphant return, a 21.81 first-place time in the 50 free. "That's a pretty good time considering how little training he's done," co-captain Malcolm Cooper said yesterday. "He's going to be even better in about a month...
...Latin America, he was arrested in Chile while symbolically laundering an American flag outside the U.S. embassy. Then he moved on to Rome, where he starred in eight spaghetti westerns, and was arrested again in an anti-Viet Nam demonstration. During the 1960s, Reed also made several triumphant tours of the Soviet Union. Audiences there were impressed by his boyish good looks, syrupy baritone and eclectic repertoire of folk, rock and mellow protest songs. He soon had a huge following of Soviet fans, who considered him a "typically American performer...
This might be called the Vince Lombardi election-winning was the only thing. Behind the eyes of the triumphant candidates burns the apparent conviction that the world cannot go on without them. They spent more, walked more, advertised more, paraded more than any others before them. (Is any Senator worth the $6.7 million that Jesse Helms spent...
...Boston by the widest margin in any election in the history of this city," said a triumphant Mayor Kevin H. White when he claimed victory for his forces at 10:05 p.m. in Sheraton Boston Hotel...