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Wells and Ed Turner sent the Club ahead 6 to 2 with goals in the third period. In the early seconds of the final cuarter Carl Apthorp lured Crimson goalie Dick MacKinnon out of the nets and just managed to tap the ball past him into the goal before being blocked...
...like pneumatic drills and 200 pages later bore through to the autosuggestive heart of the matter: "Your main, over-all theme in life, of course, is: 'I am going to succeed in everything I undertake! ... I am going to succeed in everything I undertake!' (Repetition, reiteration. Tap-tap-tap! Always tapping, pushing forward. Repeating, repeating-seeing yourself doing it, over and over-visualizing, 'I can! . . .' 'I will! . . .' I believe...
...Live 365 Days a Year, by John A. Schindler (Prentice-Hall; 300,000 copies), substitutes "E.I.I." for tap-tap-tap. "E.I.I." stands for "emotionally induced illness," which Author Schindler, a Wisconsin M.D., declares to be responsible for more than 50% of all the sickness in the U.S. Schindler came to this conclusion by trial and error, and admits once ordering the removal of a gall bladder from a woman whose pains actually ceased only with the return of her soldier son. Psychosomatic medicine receives some strikingly visceral tributes from Schindler's subheads, e.g., "The Colon Is the Mirror...
...conference, the President surveyed his audience through eyes moist and red-rimmed from a stubborn head cold. Tamped into his left ear was a medicated wad of cotton. To newsmen about to ply him with such lackluster inquiries as whether he drinks the District of Columbia's fluoridated tap water (he does), Ike explained that his hearing temporarily was not good (Presidential Physician Howard McC. Snyder's diagnosis: an inflamed Eustachian tube). The President advised the press to sound off loud and clear to help his handicapped hearing...
Bodman sunk two free throws and a basket at 14:30 to tie the score, 61-all. Then came Downs' nine points sandwiched around a Robinson tap-in, and the Elis were out in front to stay, 72 to 63. The rest was merely the formality of running out the clock, with Yale freezing the ball for a good portion of the last three minutes...