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NOYCE'S NOSTALGIA is so wide-eyed and enthusiastic, so genuine, that you can't trash it as easily as Grease or Bye Bye Birdie. If you can suspend your understandable desire for a visible plot, and overlook gaping holes in construction, Newsfront may draw you in. If you're a sucker for nostalgia, stay and see it twice--the second ride, when you know where the bumps are, is easier to take...
...record is six, but before 1922 the previous year's winner had a bye to the finals...
...Bye-bye,Shah!" shouted Iranian students as they hurled rocks and bottles at his sister's house in Beverly Hills last January. But now that they have got what they wanted and Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi has been driven from the Peacock Throne, most of the students are not any happier. Only a relative few are returning to the country for whose liberation they had protested so vociferously...
Also receiving a bye to the quarterfinals by virtue of a division title is Boston, which finished third in the overall point totals. Right now, the Bruins are not the third best team in the league. If goalie Gerry Cheevers does not play well, or if the scrappy Bruin attack bogs down as it has recently, an upstart could surprise them in the quarters...
...Smythe division champs from Chicago had any pride, they would not even accept the first round bye. Eleventh overall, seven games under .500 in divisional hockey's equivalent to double-A ball, the Black Hawks have Tony Esposito between the twines, Tom Lysiak at center, Bobby Orr in the press box, and not much else. In fact, nothing else. Say good-bye to them in the quarters...