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...Crimson ran into trouble against strong pitchers from Spring field and Dartmouth, and unless Harvard can reach the Eli hurlers another top-notch performance by Kidwell will be in vain...
...Commission accused company officials of manipulating the stock and making misleading statements about proposed mergers. For a while, Parvin/ Dohrmann stock was suspended from trading. The SEC claimed that, at the behest of Company Chairman Delbert Coleman, Parvin/Dohrmann had paid Washington influence-peddler Nathan Voloshen $50,000 in a vain attempt to raise the ban. In February, Coleman resigned and trading was resumed. Parvin/ Dohrmann reported a profit of $10.2 million for last year, compared with a $618,000 loss in 1968. Its casinos made all of the money, but company officers said last week that they will change...
Seale may be martyred; but he is in danger because he has worked for a revolution in the living conditions of black people. In his own life Seale has set that end above his survival. For him to die in vain, because white radicals aren't responsible enough to find and use an effective political strategy, would be the most monstrous failure...
...nodded. "And all us down here are vanity and vain striving...
...Appetite. Anne of the Thousand Days, for example, is a costumer's spectacle, filled with wind and hung with tinsel. It is Bujold who renders the erotic appetite of Henry VIII believable. Anne is no standard prima donna marking pentameters until her next big speech. She is a vain coquette who is first delighted with her body when it attracts the King, then distressed and finally destroyed by it when, as Queen, she fails to produce the necessary male heir. Her doomed wail, "Oh my God, the King is mad!" almost redeems the whole overblown epic...