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...Saturday afternoon, Doten, University record holder, tossed the weight 56 feet, 11 inches, good enough for second behind New York A.C.'s Bob Backus. He then whipped off from the Cage for a final at Emerson Hall, arriving at 2:15 to take the exam--in his track sweat suit...
...Djilas' opposition to the abuses of the Communist system. In his notable book, The New Class, smuggled out to Western publishers, Djilas wrote: "The totalitarian tyranny and control of the new class which came into being during the revolution has become the yoke under which the blood and sweat of all members of society flow." As chief controller of the new class, Tito was forced to take the remark personally; his court ordered seven more years added to Djilas' sentence...
...find anything helpful to say to the wiry, whisper-voiced man whose square face is delicately crosshatched with scars. Sitting alone, Goalie Glenn Hall, 29, slowly straps on his 40 Ibs. of dark-brown leather pads and fights his regular pre-game battle with his nerves. Great drops of sweat roll down his cheeks, his chest heaves convulsively, and he may vomit. Says Hall: "There have been nights when I almost wished I was hurt so I didn't have...
...other times, the dancing and music are nice enough. And dozens of times, there is Silvers in a fine sweat to make headlines or wow headwaiters, and a bit of a wow himself in the way he enters, or looks around or at, or shakes a leg or shouts a line, or exits. And as Silvers' wife, and deserving a bigger role, there is Nancy Walker, who can look wonderfully around or at, or over or through, or can sidle or sock, or be touchingly human. The music's pleasures come in what amusing lines can do along...
...goalie. A good shotmaker, usually a trained gymnast, can be 6 ft. across the line when he finally shoots, and so long as he is still in the air, the shot is legal. Goalies, in turn, spend so much time flying through space to block shots that some wear sweat suits to ease their landings on the wooden floor. Belly-flopping goalies have been known to slide 10 ft. after making a save...