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...lobbed it toward an unoccupied part of the cabin. The grenade exploded with a muffled roar, wounding Hilsinger and six others. The blast also damaged an inboard engine as well as the plane's rudder controls; as acrid smoke filled the cabin, the jet went into a dangerous dive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: Brief and Bloody | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

Sato was one of three individual winners for the Crimson in their 68-27 thrashing by Williston. She scored 205 points in the one-meter dive to top her nearest competitor by more than 80 points. Harvard diving coach John Walker said that Sato was "more mentally and physically mature and more experienced than her opposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nancy Sato Dives for Harvard Team; First to Break Athletic Sex Barriers | 12/12/1972 | See Source »

...highly-refined one. There is more that goes into good Boogie than goes into a wishbone option. And as anyone that has lived through an all-night oldies trip can attest, it's physicality in its purest form. A night at Charley's Place or any such beer-room dive supplying The Golden Sound, will show that it's more workout than a two-hour trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petering Out | 12/12/1972 | See Source »

...that followed for three bloody years became an epic of its time, with all the emotive horror that Viet Nam has spawned today. Nazi Germany sided with Franco; the war was an apt testing ground for new weapons like the Stuka dive bomber. The Soviet Union backed the Spanish Republic and its Popular Front Government; so did Communists everywhere. Volunteers poured in from around the world, among them a brigade of intellectuals, including Ernest Hemingway, André Malraux, Arthur Koestler and George Orwell. The war was to shape their words forevermore. They carried the memory of it within their hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Unsolved Problems of Succession | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

...athletes. Knight uses a number of drills which at first sight would seem better suited for a football field. One of them, for example, consists of the team breaking up into two lines at opposite, sides of the court. On the coach's signal, the two players must dive to the floor in order to pick up a loose ball. Most football teams use the same drill in full equipment...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: Severe Discipline Is Coach Knight's Trademark | 12/8/1972 | See Source »

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