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History's classic murders for policy purposes were committed by the 11th-century Moslem sect of Assassins, founded by the fanatically ambitious Hasan ibn-al-Sabbah. Established in a rocky fortress in the Elburz mountains, Hasan propagated his autocratic rule by a program of systematic murder. His killers were the Fida'is (devout ones), young men trained from adolescence in a sort of Green Beret tradition to murder with a variety of weapons...
Captain John Havlicek, playing in the National Basketball Association playoffs for the 11th time of his career, scored 30 points as the Boston Celtics began defending their NBA championship last night with a decisive 123-106 victory over the Houston Rockets...
...make the 10th, 11th and 12th holes in par, you'll pick up a stroke on the rest of the field. I won it all on the 12th in 1952 on the final round. I hit a six-iron into the water, took my penalty shot, and then skulled the ball into the grass bank in front of the green. It looked like a certain six or worse, but I wedged out stone-dead into the cup and saved my lead...
Another freshman, Carol Moore, shaved two seconds off her best time of the season, as she took sixth in the 100-yard breaststroke in a time of 1:16.66 Moore was another dual point-getter for Radcliffe, taking 11th in the 50-yard breaststroke...
...hassle could not obscure the show's uniqueness. It comprises some 385 objects the Chinese Communists have unearthed since they took over control of China in 1949. It includes magnificent bronze vessels from the 11th century B.C., whose sculptured decorations resemble later Mayan motifs...