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Yardling coach Bill Cleary is counting on captain Kevin Hampe, a defenseman, to help keep shots away from the Harvard goal today. The freshman coach noted. "While Hampe appears unspectacular, when you look up after the game you notice that he's let very few pucks slip...
...massive kickback scandal, since whichever construction company received the contract would, of course, be quite appreciative. In addition, the dirt that the company would have to dig up in order to build the garage would make good landfill, and as Massachusetts politicians would say, "there's many a slip between the cup and the state treasury...
...Billikens' strategy is defense. St. Louis has allowed only 85 shots on goalie Don Copple. Harvard opposition has fired 175 times at Bill Meyers. Copple had to make only 39 saves, letting a meager 6 goals slip through, while Meyers's statisties show 143 saves and only 7 misses...
Late last summer, mobsters from Cleveland and Los Angeles set in motion an ingenious scheme to slip the hand of organized crime back into the casino tills. The plan was simple: organize the city's 7,000 plus gambling dealers into a mob-run union. Using the threat of a strike that could cripple the gambling hotels, the gangsters could persuade the owners to sign lucrative contracts for food, liquor and vending machines from firms owned by Cosa Nostra An equally distasteful prospect for casino owners would be that the dealers could become free agents, responsible only...
...Closed since the outbreak of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Suez today is a useless relic of what was once one of the world's busiest waterways that handled an average of 57 ships a day in 1966. Dug in on opposite banks, the Arabs and Israelis sometimes slip across the canal to launch raids. The canal thus even fails to fulfill its sole remaining function of a moat between enemies...