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Both squads had chances to grab the win--B.U.'s Steve Geraghty shanked a one-on-one wide in the first OT and Ayrault cracked one with almost no angle into the side of the net in the second period--but 110 minutes of play, the frigid wind, and the players' own inconsistent play sealed...
...cruiser went the 55 members of her 850-man crew who had died in the fighting-and entombed with them went five tons of gold ingots, contained in 93 wooden cases, that were a payment by the Soviets to the U.S. for military supplies. Covered by 800 ft. of frigid water, the doughty Edinburgh was quickly gone but not soon forgotten; the site of her foundering eventually was named an official British war grave...
Into that frigid cavern, and 328 smaller warehouses and depositories around the country, the Department of Agriculture each week deposits 45 million lbs. of unwanted butter, cheese and nonfat dry milk. The accumulating hoard, which now totals 800,000 tons, or enough to fill a fleet of supertankers, is the result of the U.S. Government's 32-year-old dairy-price-support program. How to keep the stockpile from swelling even larger is now giving the Reagan Administration something approaching collective indigestion...
...buoyant inebriated throng, they totter off toward the campus or a cafe where they can calm down with a cup of coffee. The fraternal transport is not at is beatific height. Arm in arm they reel indifferent to traffic or the piercing cold: one lifts his hands to the frigid heavens and races down the street backward, his scarf and topcoat wildly flapping in the wind, crying out in ecstasy. "Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord!" The unbroken tension of weeks--of a year and a half for some, has ended. Bicker is over at last, for them...
...voice, and at such moments those famous violet eyes look as blue and forbidding as arctic ice. Much has been written about those eyes, but it has not been noted how quickly they can move up and down the Fahrenheit scale, from a sultry 85 or so to a frigid ten below zero. Some of the chill is shyness. When she was younger she used to go to parties and hide in the shadow of her second husband, Michael Wilding. One night Humphrey Bogart told her to sit by herself and make people come to her. She did-and people...