Word: face-off
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...face-off with the President, McCarthy complained that Johnson's pledge-card campaign (TIME, Feb. 9) was tantamount to a denial of the right to a secret ballot and likened it to branding cattle in Texas. At week's end, Robert Kennedy's unauthorized New Hampshire committee said it would heed the New York Senator's pleas to drop its write-in campaign, and most members announced that they would transfer their backing to McCarthy. Even so, there was every indication that McCarthy's drive to check L.B.J. was still moving on perilously thin...
...only Yardling squad to stay at home today, the freshman hockey team, will face-off with the Boston College freshmen at 4:15 p.m. Coming off a loss to Penn last Saturday, the Crimson will have to regain the touch and timing they lost during the exam break if they are to beat the big, rugged Eaglets...
...third was a period of fights and Crimson frustration. Gary Mitchell rammed home the sixth Engineer goal off a face-off with Harvard a man down. Then a minute later Ron Moreau stole the puck from Harvard's Terry Flaman and raised the margin...
NoDak's Roger Bamburak put the Crimson behind after a minute of play, but fifteen seconds later Pete Muellertied the score. Ron Mark took the puck off a face-off, skated around a defense-man and shot. Mueller banged home the rebound off goalie Mike Curran...
...dubbed it the strategy of the periphery. In plain terms, it is hit-and-run for the nearest border-Laos, Cambodia or North Viet Nam -where the lethal arm of U.S. power cannot pursue. The result is likely to be more and more border warfare, from the year-long face-off along the DMZ to recent battles like those for Loc Ninh two weeks ago and for Dak To last week-both of which resulted in major Communist defeats...