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...Crimson squad, showing little of the well-choreographed passing game that brought twin victories against Emmanuel and Brown last week, played consistently well for the first three quarters of the game, but finally collapsed under a blizzard of Bentley offensive drives...
...cynics around the league give the Lions about as much chance against John Anderson's 7-1 Bruins as a flickering candle in a Siberian blizzard. But the mood among Columbia's gridders, who can usually be found nestled in the jazz room of Morningside Height's West End Bar, which incidentally is billing the Frank Williams Swing Four this week, is one of quiet confidence...
Last month's hijacking of a TWA jet by Croatian terrorists produced a blizzard of passenger testimonials to the humanitarianism, calmness and intelligence of the captors. "I realized there was a lot to admire in all of them," said Los Angeles TV Consultant Rudy Bretz. "They were idealists who proved that they had a just cause." Even the pilot was so pleased with the performance of the lone female hijacker, Julienne Busic, in preventing panic, that he gave her a big hug as police took her away...
...addition, Koestler offers a blizzard of information but not enough hard facts to support his thesis. As in the past, he is a master of the conditional assertion ("This would be added evidence ..."). Unfortunately, the approximately four-century history of Khazaria is thin in primary source material. The kingdom seems to have flourished as a crossroads of East-West trade. Persecuted Jews from Byzantium are believed to have flocked to Khazaria, where they intermarried with their Caucasian coreligionists. When Genghis Khan's Mongols swept westward in the 13th century, Khazaria's Jews fled to Eastern and Central Europe...
...someone-anyone-to give him a lift. The other episode also occurred in that crucial early primary. Says Cloud: "A status test for reporters in the Carter campaign is whether or not you were on the 'white-knuckle' flight to Berlin, N.H.-pronounced BER-lin." A blizzard began as Carter was flying to speak there, and passengers on the pitching, yawing plane watched the slopes of the White Mountains rushing past and sometimes toward their little craft...