Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LOOKING DOWN GAME, by Leigh Dean, illustrated by Paul Giovanopoulos (Funk & Wagnalls; $2.95). When Edgar moves into a new neighborhood with no friends, he makes up a secret "looking down game," and discovers beetles, patterns in floating leaves, ants and a bird's nest. All year he plays his game until a new friend takes his hand and helps him up a tree. Then Edgar, a black city child, finds a new and even more exciting world to explore...
...Duvalier!"), implicating New York's Haitian Coalition, a group of exiles bent on Duvalier's overthrow. To try to fix the blame, Duvalier had the eight prisoners flown to the capital and grilled them personally for eight hours. Then, wearing camouflage uniforms with tags obscurely reading "Big Game! Styled by Broadway," they were marched off-presumably to their execution. At week's end, Duvalier indignantly demanded a meeting of the U.N. Security Council to investigate this latest "armed aggression" against his dark fiefdom...
Columnist Jimmy Breslin greets the ethics question with typical cynicism: "It's all a game," he says about the matter of protecting sources. "Nobody's telling you nothing he doesn't want to see in print. They say, 'Don't print it' and they mean 'Print it.' So I say I won't, and I mean I will. Flimflam has gotta be met with equal flimflam. I don't regard anything as private-as long as I'm talking to public people...
...gaps in the Crimson offense are especially wide. The passing game has been decimated. Starting ends Joe Cook and Carter Lord and both of last year's quarterbacks, Ric Zimmerman and Pete Berg, are leaving. According to Yovicsin, they will be tough to replace, especially the quarterbacks. "Our chief concern is that none of the quarterback candidates has varsity experience," he said...
Larry Cetrulo was the best passer on the freshman team last year. Not as good a runner as O'Grady or as effective a leader as Kelly, Cetrullo's weakness is his lack of experience. He didn't start a game last year, and a mid-season rib injury sidelined him for three games...