Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Homer L. Carson knows that there is more to the equations than an occasional misfiring joke. Her son, at 41, is an institution, a cup of bedtime coffee with none of the caffeine removed. "We're more effective than birth control pills," says Carson, improvising a bit on his own slightly leering line that people watch him "through their toes"-that is, lying down in bed. On good nights in midwinter, there might be as many as 10 million viewers, according to Nielsen. But if there are fewer on other nights, Carson at least gets a crack...
...pros- except for football- enjoy making monkeys of the experts when big money is at stake. Take hockey. At the end of the 70-game season, the league leaders are rewarded with $2,250 per man. Then the first four teams meet in the Stanley Cup playoffs for $5,250 per man-and all bets are off. Last week, the Toronto Maple Leafs walloped the Montreal Canadiens for their fourth Stanley Cup in six years. Only once in that time have they finished No. 1 in regular season play...
...retirement after an illustrious 20-year career that won him four Vezina trophies as hockey's top goalie. The experts considered it a minor miracle when Toronto wound up the season third behind the Chicago Black Hawks and Montreal Canadiens-and awaited their speedy demise in the Stanley Cup...
...periods he beat back another 37 shots, allowed only a single goal as the Leafs won 4-1. With just one more win to go in the best-of-seven series, Toronto Coach Imlach told his team: "They said you old men couldn't possibly win the Stanley Cup. For some of you it's farewell. Now go out there and stick the puck down their throats." And so they did-with three goals, while Sawchuk was blocking, catching and kicking away everything the desperate Canadiens could fire at him. It was well into the third period before...
Last week in the Adams Cup, it was Harvard over Penn by a length and a half in the heavyweight freshman contest. Penn coach Ted Nash said after the race: "We're going to close in on them next week." Saturday's race will probably be a closer...