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...Flukes. Under the N.H.L.'s peculiar play-off rules, designed to boost team treasuries, the first-and third-place teams fight it out for a place in the playoffs. The second-and fourth-place teams skate through the same routine. Thus, while the third-place Black Hawks disgraced the first-place Canadiens by beating them four games out of six, including unprecedented back-to-back 3-0 shutouts, the lowly, fourth-place Red Wings swept four straight (after dropping the opener) from the Maple Leafs. But the pair of upsets were no flukes...
...straight to Dollarway. "Nigger," jeered a white crowd surrounding the pair, "why do you want to register her in a white school?" John D. answered quietly: "Because it is a public school." Then he took his child's hand and went about his business. Delores became the first-and only-Negro student accepted at Dollarway. All Pine Bluff waited to see what would happen when school opened...
...were designed in part to avert price wars between I.A.T.A. members in areas where they were being undercut by other airlines. In some cases, propeller ticket prices were cut more than jet-flight fares. The airlines will also drop the de luxe and tourist-fare classes, offer only first-and economy-class travel...
...Last week, stirred and cajoled by Sam Shepard for 19 months, the children had a report card to cheer. New tests of Sam Shepard's eighth-graders showed twice as many (14.8%) ready for top-track high school work next fall. At one school, where only 28% of first-and second-graders were reading at the national norm last June, the rate had soared to 57.2% by January...
...Thiokol had produced solid-fuel engines, i.e., basically cylinders packed with the fuel, for the first full-scale Army test missiles. When the Army successfully launched four of them-proving that solid fuels worked-contracts flowed into Thiokol. Crosby's scientists turned out the first-and second-stage engines for the Farside rocket project, won the contracts to produce the propulsion systems of the Air Force's air-to-air Falcon and the Army's antiaircraft Nike-Hercules, surface-to-air Hawk, surface-to-surface Lacrosse and Sergeant...