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Meanwhile, Shirley Williams had undeniably established herself as a personality to be reckoned with in British politics. Margaret Thatcher, who watched the results on TV in her private quarters at 10 Downing Street, had every reason to pay close attention to the victor. Some newspapers described Williams as the probable successor to the Prime Minister. As Labor M.P. Roy Hattersley put it: "Acknowledging Mrs. Williams' extraordinary ability to walk spotless through the minefield of party politics requires neither graciousness nor chivalry. It is a simple fact...
...Esmerelda, the gypsy temptress in the CBS-TV Hallmark Hall of Fame treatment of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, British Actress Lesley-Anne Down, 27, bounces through enough personal crises to earn her a guest spot on Phil Donahue's show. During the two-hour special, to be aired next year, she is arrested, hauled off to the Bastille, kidnaped, ravished and accused of being a witch. In the gallows scene Lesley-Anne was forced to stand with a noose around her neck and her hands tied behind her back while she balanced atop...
Word last week from the northern Italian village of Merano came 41 moves into the 18th game of the 30th World Chess Championship. Challenger Victor Korchnoi, 50, conceded his final defeat to Defending Champion Anatoli Karpov, 30, six games to two with ten draws. The pair, known to chess fans as "K-2," traded off-court insults during much of their 51 days of play. Soviet Wunderkind Karpov takes home $280,000. Korchnoi, a defector from the U.S.S.R., $170,000. A nice check, mates...
...really. It seems that Victor has been sitting in the same wooden, straight back chair in Stillman library every day for the past three years, seven hours a day. Occasionally he fools some of his friends by leaving for three minutes to get a drink of water at the "bubbler," or a Doctor Pepper in the automated vending "Machine City," which crazy Victor calls one of the hottest pick up spots on campus. But usually Victor is more than easily accessible, and always ready to speak on the virtues of Yale. "I've talked to a lot of people." Victor...
Unfortunately there is no room in the Dewey decimal system for New Haven bars, and Victor is for once left dumbfounded by your rather simple query. But meeting him has not been totally useless, for Victor sheds some light on an equally important question. That steeple you noticed on a hill about two miles away from main campus belongs to Albert Magnus, a Catholic women's college which is described by Victor, who has never been there as a silly little school...