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...Russians' defensive style is less sophisticated. In fact, the goaltender is the first-and final-line of defense. The Soviet defensemen do not use their bodies to deter opponents as willingly or as often as their N.H.L. counterparts, and the Russian forwards backcheck hardly at all. But with Vladislav Tretiak guarding the goal, there seemed to be little need. He averaged 39 saves in the four games he played and astounded observers with his catlike reflexes...
...adolescence, Cher had started perfecting a signature she regarded as suitable for a star to sign in autograph books, and after the tenth grade she quit school forever. Around this time she had a first-and last-experience with a drug, Benzedrine. It left her "deadly opposed to drugs in every form, in every way." At 16 she left home rather than go on quarreling with her mother about "life-styles...
...first-and perhaps last -brush with politics, former Army Chief of Staff and retired Viet Nam Commander General William C. Westmoreland, 60, last week discovered that a political campaign cannot be run like a military one. In the state's first Republican primary (the G.O.P. previously picked its candidates in convention), a mere 34,000 voters went to the polls...
...intention to establish a democratic government-instead of vice versa. In time, the shock waves sent out by the coup may be felt more strongly in Africa than in Lisbon itself, and the end of the Lisbon dictatorship signaled profound changes for Portugal's vast colonial holdings, the first-and the last-great European empire...
...said that students at the meeting expressed their dissatisfaction with student-faculty relationships, first-and second-year requirements, lack of student input into department decisions, and the financial aid plan...