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Several moves are possible from a back-to-back position. The parties can step apart to duel, which will bring serious consequences. Or they can turn to face each other, but not shake hands. Or best of all, they can make a quarter turn and then walk together in the same direction...
...teams have a brief break now. The Classics resume home play Wednesday, January 11 against the Harvard j.v. The varsity takes its show on the road during winter break--to excited crowds in New York, California and New Hampshire--returning to desolate Briggs on January 6 and 7 for back-to-back contests with perennial Ivy powers Penn and Princeton--who are each sure to have a few hundred fans of their own on hand. Mark your calendar...
This is a defect it shares with whoever conceived Blue Thunder, which is by far the lesser of Badham's back-to-back releases. The film's nominal plot has Roy Scheider as a good Los Angeles police department chopper ace assigned to test what amounts to a flying gun platform. Once he discovers its illiberal potential, he must fight his way past Malcolm McDowell, an old neofascist enemy from his Viet Nam days now employed as a power-elite gunslinger. After that dogfight comes a showdown with a couple of Air Force jets...
Eddie Delahoussaye, only the fourth jockey ever to ride back-to-back Kentucky Derby winners, patted Sunny's Halo's neck just as he had Gato del Sol's last year: two terrific horses. Ten years ago exactly, Secretariat spoiled horses for people. When he romped around the track, the trees swayed. A showy chestnut with three white stockings, he made it necessary to reissue Writer Joe Palmer's perfect description of Man o' War: "As near to a living flame as horses ever get." Actually, Secretariat came to the Kentucky Derby...
...pitch, then watched as Vinnie Martelli stroked another 0-2 pitch over the left field fence and beyond. One out later, Jay McNamara doubled, then scored under Big Red catcher Dave Menapace's tag when Tony DiCesare lined one to left. When Scott Vierra and Bruce Weller nabbed back-to-back singles, Harvard led 5 1 and Cornell starter Steve Huber left in favor of Larry Brown...