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...Winter Sports division of the Olympic Games closed at Chamonix, with Norway the decisive victor, having scored 134 1/2 of the 391 points allotted...The great event of the week was the final in hockey, in which Canada defeated the U.S., 6-1. It was a contest between Canadian teamwork and American individual stars. In twenty seconds after the play began a Canadian was sent sprawling. Before two minutes had elapsed an American was laid out by a Canadian's stick. From start to finish the players knocked each other about so that the game was a succession...
...gave up his seat to another musician. DIED. VICTOR POSNER, 83, corporate raider who was once one of America's highest-paid executives but was later convicted of tax fraud; in Miami. Over three decades, Posner built an industrial empire worth $4 billion but in 1987 pleaded no-contest to tax evasion charges and was banned in 1993 from serving as an officer in a public company. DIED. VERNON WALTERS, 85, retired Army lieutenant general who was U.S. ambassador to the U.N.; in West Palm Beach, Florida. Walters' military career began at the outset of WW II, and his linguistic...
...Winter Sports division of the Olympic Games closed at Chamonix, with Norway the decisive victor, having scored 134 1/2 of the 391 points allotted ... The great event of the week was the final in hockey, in which Canada defeated the U.S., 6-1. It was a contest between Canadian teamwork and American individual stars. In twenty seconds after the play began a Canadian was sent sprawling. Before two minutes had elapsed an American was laid out by a Canadian's stick. From start to finish the players knocked each other about so that the game was a succession...
That method would “take the randomness of the order out,” said school committee member Richard Harding Jr., one of the candidates to contest the November election and prevail in the recount...
With 30 seconds left in a close contest at Dartmouth last year, Clemente lined up to make an inbounds pass under Harvard’s hoop, staring down a frantic full-court press applied by the Big Green...