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...babies. After being wounded and returning to the U.S. in 1969, Parker had difficulty keeping a job. In the past year, counselors have talked with him about his feelings of guilt and found him work as a security guard. Says Parker: "I'd be dead today without this vet center...
...COURSE. Death in a Tenured Position stubs its toes a few times along the way. Cross seems confused about the ages of her characters; a man who seems thirtyish suddenly becomes a World War II vet, for example. The denouement of the mystery is predictable and dull. And a minor annoyance: Cross's work suffers from the classic academician's addiction to the semi-colon. Alas, it is no surprise, considering Amanda Cross is, in real life, Carolyn Heilbrun, a tenured professor of English at (of all places) Columbia...
Obviously, manager Ralph Houk will give a good, long look to those who have pitched well in the majors, like southpaw John Tudor (8-5, 3.02 in Boston last year) and vet Skip Lockwood. He'll also be inspecting perennial prospects Win Reramerswaal and Keith MacWhorter, neither of whom made it big in their short stints in Massachusetts last year...
Saturday's 11:30 a.m. matinee drew a polite round of applause from onlookers, as recruits-turned-revolutionaries bayoneted the three villains into submission. But at a demonstration organized by Vietnam veterans several days ago, one vet said, "I don't think what they [the Marxist-Leninist] have to say has a hell of a lot to do with what we are saying...
...second half seemed to evaporate into desultory football. Neither team put together much offense; it seemed to move crosstown to the Vet, where Penn State came from behind to obliterate Temple. Buckley's 41-yd. touchdown strike to Chuck Marshall with 6:52 remaining in the game put Harvard comfortably ahead...