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...Celtics, after a cold third quarter, started their patented fourth period rally. Russell, who missed nine foul shots in the game, and Johnny Havlicek brought the Celts to within one point, 83-82, and within one again, 87-86, before Robertson and Lucas with clutch shooting gave Cincinnati an eight point lead with 40 seconds to play. But a series of Royal miscues allowed the Celts to close...
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...turned in clutch performances for the Crimson in the crucial matches of this season. In the 5-4 loss to Princeton, he rallied from a 2-1 deficit to defeat Tiger Bill Reed; at Yale, in the match which decided the national team championship, he contributed to Harvard's 6-3 victory by downing Eli Dan Badger...
Hill gave Texas Western its first big lead early in the first half with two fantastic steals which ran the score from 10-9 for the Miners to 14-9. After that, the 5-10 Hill astounded the crowd with his clutch plays and driving layups...
...master cross-examiner, Foreman made hash of the state's witnesses-a clutch of convicts and others who told in gutter argot of assorted sexual stunts that they said Mel boasted of performing with Candy. Sex, the defense scoffed, does not prove murder. After one Texas thief and drug addict testified that Candy gave him $7,000 to kill Mossler, and an ex-con carnival worker said that Mel offered $10,000 for the same job, the defense produced both men's wives to testify that their husbands were liars. Another con, who claimed that Mel had asked...