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...Conspicuous Absence of Penalties: Approximately 55 out of the 60 regulation minutes featured five-on-five hockey. Cheap shots were replaced by legal, stiff checks. The only violence in this game was the way both teams churned perpetually up and down the ice like men possessed...
...dramatic changes in the weather patterns (see following box) that are sending temperatures plummeting across the nation are, ironically enough, warming the one state that is usually frozen stiff. In Anchorage, Alaska, where the thermometer was up to a comparatively balmy 45° last week, the ice was so soft that hockey players went home in disgust. Meanwhile, snowstorms avoided areas that are normally blanketed with white. Rocky Mountain ski operators complained bitterly about the clear skies. Sun Valley, Idaho, the haven of the wealthy and the sedate, had to use snowmaking machines, and even then managed to keep open...
Healing is slow and agonizing. Patients are barely able to eat; yet their high metabolism rate means they must consume as many as 6,000 calories a day. Lest the limbs become stiff, exercises must be started almost immediately, despite the fact that any movement can be extremely painful. Though hospital stays have been shortened, many burn victims remain from 30 to 60 days and some are kept a year or more, not only because they are undergoing extensive skin grafts but because portions of the body may have to be entirely reconstructed. In fact, says Brooke's Colonel...
...been taken at his word and waved on. This time, though, the customs guard made a rare, fortuitous spot check. Digging deep into Aloisi's elegant black briefcase, the guard discovered contraband promissory notes and commercial paper valued at $3.1 million. Under the provisions of Italy's stiff new laws designed to curb the clandestine flow of capital abroad, Aloisi faces a possible six years in prison and fines ranging from $7 million to $14 million...
Chief Asset. Though the U.A.W. will not bargain again with the auto industry until 1979, Fraser will soon face some stiff challenges. He must step up recruitment of new members to compensate for losses that the union has suffered because of automation of car plants and the move of many auto factories to Southern areas hostile to unionism. He also must placate the U.A.W.'s skilled workers, who are clamoring for the right to veto contracts even if they are acceptable to assembly line people. Fraser's chief asset in running the union will be his great popularity...