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...really big question in Washington was: How did Senator William Proxmire (D., Wis.) get two black eyes? Gossips ruled out a barroom brawl (he doesn't drink) or a domestic disagreement (he is separated from his wife). The Senator would only say, "No comment." The most likely explanation was blepharoplasty-plastic surgery to remove bags under the eyes...
...these suggestions can be opposed because they involve too many subjective judgments. But it is a joke when Big Ten commissioner Wayne Duke says he has to "review again" the films of this week's brawl. Now the players think they can get away with some things but not everything; the administrators should make them think they can't get away with anything...
Campbell pushed through new rules calling for fines and automatic ejection of the first player to leave the bench for a brawl, as well as any third player who joins a two-man fight-pointedly omitting further penalties for the first two players who start swinging. "We're not against fighting," explains Campbell, a former Rhodes scholar and N.H.L. referee. "It's part of the game. But we are not going to tolerate the senseless spectacle of disorder that tends to turn a game into a farce...
...counting the episode between periods of a recent match in Philadelphia, when Coach Al Arbour of the St. Louis Blues suffered a ten-stitch gash on his head and was stripped of his coat and shirt in a wild 30-minute brawl in the stands between St. Louis players, fans and 200 policemen. Arbour and three of his players were later arrested for assault and battery and released on $500 bond each...
Suddenly the peaceful demonstration turned into a brawl. Swarming out from a side street, a battalion of young hoods of the extremist Movement of the Revolutionary Left charged the demonstrators along the broad Avenida Providencia. As the leftists began throwing rocks, right-wing youths wearing hard hats entered the fray swinging wooden clubs. When shield-carrying carabineros finally moved in, they unaccountably aimed most of their tear gas and water cannon at the women. Scrambling in retreat, the marchers shouted "Assassins! Assassins...