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...McMahon struck for Harvard's fifth before the period ended and Desmond, McManama Randy Roth and Jay Riley added four more in the third to wrap up the rout...
...game. But how to connect Windsor and Ladd with Mac and Ed? Again Hunt, overcomer of obstacles, came through with one of his schemes. He corralled a lot of boys with bicycles, and as fast as Windsor and Ladd could get a bunch of copy written they would wrap it around a stone and drop it over the bleachers to one of the young bicyclists waiting 'below, and away it would go across the Yard and into the waiting hands of Mac and Ed at Wheeler's. The last bit of copy was carried by a plucky little beggar...
...message to Hanoi asserting that though a few matters needed clarification, "the text of the agreement could be considered complete" and an Oct. 31 signing seemed feasible. The plan was for a bombing and mining halt on Oct. 23; Kissinger would go to Hanoi on Oct. 24 to wrap up the loose ends in a final two-day negotiating session and initial the agreement. Formal signing would take place a week later in Paris...
...Washington, Henry Kissinger waited for word that Hanoi's Le Duc Tho would join him in Paris for the promised one final session to wrap up the peace package. On television, Richard Nixon repeated that he would not be "stampeded" into signing the agreement before it is "right." George McGovern replied bitterly that Nixon had embarked "not on a path to peace but a detour around Election Day." North Viet Nam's Paris spokesman Nguyen Than Le blasted the Administration as "dishonest" and demanded that it make a public "commitment" to sign the agreement as it stood...
...skillful development of suspense is neglected. The "second level" with which Chabrol's idol Hitchcock expands the thriller here comes forward and overwhelms the story. What could have been turned into suspense or shock--the identity of Helene's murderer--is abbreviated and intellectualized into a sort of "wrap-up" scene between Paul and Theo. It is the philosophy professor, significantly, who has to figure out that all is not as it appears, and then tell the viewer in his confrontation with Theo. And even when he does, there are none of those little signs to look back...