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Maybe the most famous prank of all occurred in 1982 when, midway through the second quarter, a huge black weather balloon emerged from the field at the 45 yard line. It took workmen several minutes to dislodge the contraption, as bemused Harvard players a few feet away, en route to a 45-7 rout of Yale, paused to watch...
McMahon capitalized on the error with an 11-yd. touchdown run on the first Cabot-North play. Following good blocks by linemen Tom Moffatt and John O'Brien, he ran through the hole and shook off several attempted tackles en route to the endzone...
...Kabul after a 19-year-old Soviet soldier slipped in through an open gate. Embassy personnel were allowed to come and go, but electricity to the building was cut off while U.S. diplomats tried to determine whether the soldier was seeking political asylum. Said Secretary of State George Shultz, en route to Moscow for presummit consultations: "Our posture is to do our best to look after his interests...
...stone-faced star of the 1950s television series Sky King, player in low-budget westerns and such Mountie movies as Call of the Klondike (1950) and Northwest Territory (1952), onetime radio entertainer, and lately goodwill ambassador for Cypress Gardens, an entertainment park in central Florida; in an automobile accident en route to view last week's space shuttle lift-off as an invited guest of NASA; in Titusville...
...THEIR PART, the two actors portray the husbands to look, accurately, like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. In one of the movie's funnier scenes--the proverbial railroad station scene--the husbands cross paths en route to a train and realize they are wearing matching punctuation mark sweaters. Philippe's sweater has an exclamation point on it, which defines him perfectly as he rants and raves through the movie as a know-nothing know-it-all. Vincent's sweater, however, bears a question mark because his ranting and raving springs from his utter cluelessness. What a pair...