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...case for the 24-year-old Jordanian immigrant. However, when a Pasadena, Calif., school official began testifying for the defense that Sirhan's IQ was 89 (a score of 90-110 is the norm), their client exploded again. While Judge Walker hastily sequestered the jury, Sirhan addressed the bench. "I, at this time, sir," he declared, "wish to withdraw my original plea of not guilty and submit the plea of guilty on all counts...
...turning points of the game came when two of Dartmouth's starters fouled out with two minutes left to play. At that point, Dave Sawier came off the bench to make two key baskets which tied the score at 98 all. Revitalized, the Yardlings displayed their usual confidence--they've won their last nine games--and managed to hold off the Indians...
Yale junior Rob Jackson came off the bench with 12 minutes left in the first half and proceeded to score eight of his team's next 11 points, propelling the Elis toward an eventual 84-69 Ivy League triumph...
Gustavson's 20-footer pushed Harvard into a brief lead at the start of the final period, but two buckets by Jackson and one each by Shellaby and Whiston broke the game open. After eight minutes, Yale led, 57-49, and Eli coach Joe Vancisin cleared his bench with three minutes left...
...HAPPENED IN BOSTON? by Russell H. Greenan. Witless German art experts, villainous Peruvian generals, paranoiac harpies, spying pigeons, nosy janitors and struggling artists are only part of the fantastic story that leads a deranged narrator, park-bench dreamer and master painter into forgery, murder and an attempt to kill...