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Goalie Bob Bland turned in a fancy last night at Watson Rink to and his Crimson teammates to a victory in the opening game of the 1960-61 hockey season, Finishing fast in the raid, the varsity sestet defeated in team...
With a couple of effective defensive pairs in front of him, Bland turned away only 17 shots all night; but oach of his saves was a big one, and whenever the Bears from Maine threatened, he was in charge. His opponent in the Bowdoin bets, Bob Chaffee, was kept busy during game--turning away 34 Crimson and for the first 46 minutes was equal to the barrage. For a stretch of ten minutes in the last period the varsity pounded him with successive shots, two of which hit home and clinched the contest...
...butt of some unprintable political jokes. As a campaigner. Republicans have learned, he is no laughing matter. Elected lieutenant governor in 1944, he won the state's top job four years later, and was best known for his school-building program. Farm-fancying Bert Carvel is a bland, high-pitched orator, but he is widely credited with having the shrewdest political brain among top Delaware Democrats...
...mildewed villa in Laos' capital city of Vientiane sits a bland, tired-eyed Premier named Prince Souvanna Phouma. He says his neutralist government wants to make peace with everybody, including the Communists. He has the support of two crack paratroop battalions, one of them under command of Captain Kong Le, whose coup last August brought Souvanna Phouma to power...
Inevitable Comparisons. There is bland acceptance of the fact that much that is now truly and distinctively British was originally borrowed from abroad-largely from France and the U.S. The most prized national characteristic, it was argued, is the universal belief among Britons that they possess a superb sense of humor. British writers, in fact, use humor to put across "a social message which might otherwise seem either boring or too plainly parsonical." Comparisons, odious though they may be, were inevitable. Where "an American novelist wishing to criticize advertising, does so headon, with moralistic violence," says the Times, a Briton...