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...Montreal goalie who invented the mask. In a game with the New York Rangers a Vic Hadfield slapshot caught Plante in the forehead and knocked him unconscious. When he returned to the ice to finish the game, he was wearing a mask, much to the disgust of coach "Toe" Blake and the rest of the Montreal players...
...life words "feeling" and "impulse." Consciousness-the rational-is presumed to be shallow and unconsciousness-the irrational-to be always interesting, often profound and usually true. Cooper's law: "Truth is an unspeakable madness." Sanity is snobbishly looked down upon as uptight and bourgeois. Never has William Blake's Romantic maxim been so believed: "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...
...William Blake saw the world's wonders in a grain of sand. Victor Papanek sees its iniquities in a chrome-plated marmalade guard for toast. Dean of the design school at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, Papanek argues his view in a controversial new book, Design for the Real World (Pantheon; $8.95), which blames industrial designers for almost every variety of pollution and waste...
Died. Kenneth Patchen, 60, poet of protean passions; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif. Sometimes compared to Whitman and Blake for its visionary quality, Patchen's work since the 1930s has been alternately described as Freudian, surrealistic, Marxist and mystic. Always evident was the poet's abhorrence of violence...
...Sable Island, Nova Scotia, and hopes soared. Geologists concluded that the find was probably part of a pool extending southward to North Carolina, and oilmen accelerated the Atlantic search. Most promising sites so far: Georges Bank Trough off Massachusetts, Baltimore Canyon Trough off the Middle Atlantic states and Blake Plateau off Florida. As Geologist Wilson Laird, the consortium's spokesman, told TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron: "We won't know if there is a single drop of oil until we actually drill for it. But based on the topographical configurations that we have found and the nature...