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Steve Kidder played brilliantly in goal for Harvard, making several acrobatic saves on hard-shot balls. In the first half a two-handed punch save by Kidder on a long chip shot prevented a sure goal as did his point-blank stop on an attempt by Penn's John Burke...
...desert, Egyptian and Israeli armored units fought deadly battles, often at point-blank range. On the first day of mobilization, Israeli Journalist David Halevy, a reserve rank lieutenant colonel, hurried from Tel Aviv to his reconnaissance battalion in the Sinai. By the second afternoon of the war, the reserve unit was in place at El Qantara, but it was unable to break through Egyptian lines to reach the bigger force it was assigned to support. Halevy later reported to TIME: "We were fighting in the area opposite Ismailia and the Firdan ridge. The Egyptian artillery was thick. Our tanks picked...
...Admiral Francisco Aleman, a former chief of naval intelligence who disappeared on April 2. Last month, too, kidnapers crashed their truck into the car of Colonel Hector Iribarren, chief of intelligence for the Third Army Corps, and, when the dazed officer grappled with them, they killed him with a point-blank burst of automatic weapon fire...
...farce demands. All the elements of farce are present and accounted for--mistaken identities, chance meetings, characters hiding beneath tables and inside closets, young innocents seeking thrills and happiness, a pig-headed miser trying to foil them, and minor characters of vast experience and questionable virtue. What the play point-blank suggests to the audience, in the moral pronounced before the final curtain, is that we should all free ourselves for some adventure in life. And with the small-town good sense that is so embarassing but so affecting in Our Town. Thornton Wilder recommends just enough excitement to keep...
...Albany to look for a job. He hijacked the Mohawk airliner with a track-meet starter's pistol, demanded and got $200,000 in ransom money, then forced the plane to land in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. There VonGeorge suffered his final setback: he was shotgunned to death at point-blank range by an FBI agent...