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...Midway through the opening session of the 21st Communist Party Congress, the January sun broke through Moscow's leaden overcast. Bright rays streamed through the four-story windows of the Great Kremlin Hall and lit up the towering, 20-ft. statue of Lenin behind the platform and the short, round, balding figure at the speaker's stand below. "See!" cried Nikita Khrushchev, a talented ad-libber, thrusting aside his 46,000-word text. "Even the sun favors us. Nature smiles on the seven-year plan...
...varsity this season, and Kelley only his second since early De- cember. The former hadn't contributed a goal since opening the scoring at Yale last year, but tonight collaborated with his new line-mates for a goal, and an assist. A third goal was produced by the line midway through the final period, but was disallowed when Kelley skated through the crease after the shot was taken. The rules, however, state than a goal is to be disallowed only when a player is in the crease before the shot...
Harry Pratt's luck finally ran out on him midway through the second period. After Dick McLaughlin was sent off for hooking at 4:21, the Crimson goalie watched the puck drift by him as he lay on the ice, but a B.C. forward missed the open cage...
Saturday's contest started slowly, and midway through the first half sloppy Crimson ballhandling had given the Lions an 18-10 lead. But sparked by two beautiful fast break goals by Dave Grayer on passes from Bowditch, the varsity tallied 12 straight points to gain a lead it never relinquished...
...only ones to see it; Williams is still undecided about taking it to Broadway), in its own way it was a revelation to the author. For the first time Playwright Williams decided to take a crack at directing his own work, gave up the reins midway through rehearsals when he concluded sadly: "I can't direct my way out of a paper...