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...rink. I'll get Jimmy Cunniff to lend me the goaltending equipment, and we'll arrange with the attendants to give us the ice for a few minutes. You'll get ten penalty shots, from anywhere you want. You can blasts it, or come in really close and deke if you like. It's up to you. Then, I'll use the experience to write a story on what it's like to be in the goal with an All-American shooting at you. I think the fans would go for it. You know, like Plimpton...
...Joey won't shoot much on the ice," he warned. "He may not even shoot at all, at least not from a distance. He'll probably try to come in and deke. so when he does, come a little out of the net, to cut down the angle, then back in, as he comes in. Wait until he's made his move if you can, before you commit yourself. Because once you've committed yourself, he's probably going to score if he hasn't already blown the angle...
...come in and deke," he was saying. "Just don't start stopping too many, or I'll have to fix it so you don't even see the puck...
Then he started to deke again. He faked me way out of the cage and flipped it in easily. Again I came out to meet him and he swerved around me and shot at the open net. Then, he missed another skating around the cage without shooting. Then, he faked me again. I slipped and accidentially tripped him. But he scored anyway? It was over. He had made...
Then, too, there is Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton, the man who selects and trains the astronauts. The professionalism of the Apollo crews is a reflection of Slayton's success-but leaves him less than totally fulfilled. Though he was chosen as one of the original seven U.S. astronauts in 1959, a mild heart murmur prevented him from ever venturing into space. When he was asked recently what he would best like to be remembered for, Slayton replied: "As the pilot of Apollo 11." There was no smile on his craggy face...