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...Wheeler slapshot hit the post four minutes later, and at the other end Blair needed some clutched saves to preserve the tied score, At 9:48. Allen Taber centered the puck from behind the Harvard net and Blair made a pad save off a John Sedgewick shot from just outside the crease...
When he flew north from Palm Beach in January 1961 to take over the presidency, Kennedy scratched away on a yellow pad, fashioning phrases for his Inaugural Address. He wanted them to equal those of Franklin Roosevelt, Wilson and maybe even Lincoln. What did I think, he asked, tossing the pad in my lap, fixing his bemused gaze on me to measure enthusiasm or lack of it. I couldn't read his handwriting and said so. He took the pad back, a little disgusted, and intoned a couple of his lines. Nice, I said, not at all convinced, since...
...supposed to be not just his lover, meal ticket and wife but also his better self, source of the ultimate good first impression. It is a cold Q.E.D. for a chilling movie that opens with shots of freeway traffic hurtling past the murder site, Snider's pad, and closes with shots of Dorothy's intimates going about their mundane business while her naked body lies covered with blood. It is hard to remember an American movie that has, from first to last, done less to court an audience's indulgence. But it is also hard to remember...
...medical students set up makeshift treatment centers in the lecture hall and in a library. They helped a score of wounded Grenadians and Cubans. The U.S. wounded were also given first aid. But morphine to relieve pain was running low. An outdoor basketball court was turned into a helicopter pad to lift the wounded to the Guam or to hospital facilities elsewhere. Recalled Student Paula Prezioso of Great Neck, N.Y.: "One minute we'd be under a desk, the next up looking for a Coke, the next treating some Cuban sniper. Then back under a desk...
...going in and out of his body than I have ever seen in one body." Lance Corporal Jeffrey Nashton of Jacksonville, N.C., reached up and grabbed Kelley's four stars to make sure he was who he said he was. In response to Nashton's signals, a pad of paper was put in his hand. He wrote, "Semper Fi,"short for the Marine motto Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful). Reagan was so moved by the account that he repeated Kelley's words verbatim during his televised speech last week. Added Reagan: "It says more than...