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...possible defenses. To call a play, one participant chooses the appropriate record and inserts it halfway into the so-called Sportscaster Box. His opponent, who can see only the defense possibilities on his side of the record, chooses a likely one by rotating the record until the segment labeled "blitz," for example, is at the top. Then he pushes the record all the way down...
Scott had friends, however. One lent him $200,000 for a last-minute media blitz. Scott challenged Spong to say which presidential candidate he backed; Spong was damaged politically when a newsman reported having heard him tell some students that he was for Senator McGovern...
Princeton struck again with five minutes left in the game, as Tiger sub Jane Kenney joined in a Princeton blitz on 'Cliffe goalie Barbie Matson and slapped in a loose ball from short range to put the Tigers out of reach...
...Like the Blitz. Israelis stationed overseas have come to feel like frontline combatants in what one Tel Aviv columnist calls "our new war of attrition." They are provided with government security suggestions that cover four pages. Embassies and consulates have been converted into veritable fortresses; in Manhattan, for instance, a potential visitor to the Israeli consulate not only has to pass a policeman but also faces locked doors, and must identify himself over an intercom before he is allowed to enter. In a European school for 1,500 Jewish children, security men have joined the faculty this term as coaches...
When it came to building a suitable new shrine for Nichiren's sacred tablet, the Soka Gakkai devotees decided to proceed in typical grandiose style. In a four-day fund-raising blitz in 1965, they collected more than $100 million for the project. This week, at the sect's headquarters on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji, followers are concluding seven days of ceremonies to celebrate the opening of the new High Sanctuary, a mammoth ten-acre complex including a plaza that can accommodate 60,000 worshipers. The steel, aluminum and concrete structure, embellished with rare marble inside...