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...final, the Russians reasoned soundly that the Americans could not make baskets if they did not have the ball. Their tactic produced one of the weirdest games ever played. Before eagle-eyed Soviet statisticians, chartmakers and movie cameras (scouting the U.S. technique for future reference), the Russians froze on to the ball as if it were a comrade. Then flashy U.S. Star Bob Kurland uncorked the game's key maneuver. To his teammates he shouted: "Hey, 'The Mustache' [Soviet Star Otar Korkija] has three fouls!" A moment later, Kurland managed to get fouled by Korkija, and under...
...heard a spine-tingling sound coming from the main gallery; he was not a nervous man, but the gallery held most of the 114 famous paintings of the "Masterpieces of the 20th Century" exhibit (TIME, June 2) and they were worth millions. Albertini cat-footed to the doorway and froze in his tracks. Visible in the glow from the windows were two men cutting masterpieces out of their frames with razors. Albertini whipped out his pistol, cried, "Haut les mains...
...former allies and enemies had worked together in smooth efficiency over the western Mediterranean. One incident had marred the maneuvers. When a British commander wanted an Italian commander to stop sending messages in code, he sent word: "Use plain language." The Italian thought his idiom was being criticized, and froze into sulky silence. Carney ruled that henceforth the proper NATO instruction should be "Do not encode...
...They were having the time of their lives when suddenly, without any connection whatever with anything he had said, apropos of nothing, he declared vehemently for both a graduated income tax and a graduated inheritance tax. The Democrats were jubilant and applauded hilariously, while the smiles froze on the faces of the Republicans . . . The President seemed to be delighted with the sensation he had created and the consternation he had wrought among Republican statesmen. Their curses on him for that speech were not only deep, but loud...
...Joseph ("The Blimp") Paladino, 24. His accomplices: Joseph ("Jo-Jo") Guidice, 20, and Carmine ("Zoc") Zoccolillo, 21, also known as "Toothy" because he likes to wiggle his pivoted front teeth. The plan was to rob the apartment on the first visit, but Guidice was scared of the butler. "I froze," he explained with the air of a peasant who had seen his king. "I just froze up there." On their "mistaken" package they left the label of a real dry cleaner for whom Paladino used to work, and that was their undoing. Employees of the cleaning establishment told police that...