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...coaches can always find solace in hopes for the future. Lee had special praise for D'agostino, a hard-nosed battler whose one loss came against Yale in a last-ditch struggle for a pin. And D'agostino is only a junior, while sophomore Beling, a fall footballer, looks like the heavyweight of the future. Lee expects him to be unbeatable after he finds the experience to go with his "outstanding athletic ability...
...savage act committed in the Rhodesian village of Musami, some 40 miles northeast of Salisbury. On Sunday evening, a dozen black guerrillas in battle dress descended on St. Paul's Mission School, hastily rounded up eight white priests and nuns and murdered seven of them in a nearby ditch with two automatic rifles and a light machine gun. The eighth missionary survived by allowing his body to fall alongside those of his dead and dying friends. "It was." said soft-spoken Father Dunstan Myerscough, 65. "a senseless, insane, brutal killing...
...drifting snow, the racers bobbed and weaved, plunging from view only to emerge again and fly across a farmer's driveway or a roadside culvert. Occasionally they would tear onto the shoulder of the road, skimming around a car or truck before hurtling back into the ditch. Driving a 450-lb. snowmobile at high speed on rough terrain is like riding a brahma bull-an exercise in keen judgment and balance. As Driver Al Bergquist, an Illinois farmer in his saner moments, told TIME Correspondent Dick Woodbury, "You're whipping along at 70 m.p.h. and you charge over...
...Last Ditch. The power of Beckett's works springs from a contradiction deeper than theories and more profound than nihilism. Like the hobos, clowns, cripples and basket cases who make up his cast of characters, Beckett is a Poet of the Last Ditch, a Bard of the Bitter End. Like them, he knows that he wants to stop talking. Like them, he knows he cannot...
...remembers that it was abortion that brought down the last government and caused an early election," explained a Cabinet official, "and no party wants to see that happen again." Still-with a careful distinction between government and party-the Christian Democrats dutifully monopolized the final debate making 13 last-ditch speeches against the passage of the bill, then made an unsuccessful attempt to block it with a motion of unconstitutionality...