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Despite the conservative trend and the new combativeness of Republicans, Byrd quickly took charge of the 96th ses sion. "Bobby Byrd has a hammer inside that velvet glove," says Cranston. The man who plays a mean fiddle off-hours displayed some fan cy footwork on the Senate floor last week. Frustrated in past sessions by the increased use of the filibuster and the postcloture filibuster, Byrd decided to do something about both obstructionist tactics. After much study, he was convinced, just be fore the session began, that he had found an answer, though he was not telling anybody what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Cautious Senate Begins | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...still the Harvard athlete is in the limelight and people and the media will be demanding. So this athlete learned when the hockey team for which he tended goal lost four straight games. I thought it had peaked after a Beanpot loss to B.U. when The Crimson compared my glove hand to that of Marv Throneberry. But the meaning of the term "humbled" was never clearer than on that Saturday afternoon in Ithaca when a lone voice in Cornell's Lynah Rink intoned, "Bertagna, you're not a sieve...you're a funnel...

Author: By Joseph D. Bertagna, | Title: Ten Historic Moments for the Harvard Athlete | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

However, Lau made two amazing saves with the Eagles on a power play halfway through the second stanza. Lau came up with a flailing glove save on All-America winger Mullen's blazing slapper from 20 feet. Thirty-three seconds later Lau stuffed Sampson's close-range backhander...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Harvard Hockey Dumps Boston College in OT | 1/10/1979 | See Source »

...soon became clear that these gods were mortal, after all, and that perhaps the Yankees--Billy Martin or no--were not. the Boomer would whiff with two men on, and all of a sudden the news became more noticeable. Weeks before Yaz's foul pop settled into Nettles's glove, the fantasy had ended, and the real world was important again...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Remembrance of Things Past | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

After two scoreless periods, Yale forward Beverly Doric blasted a 20-ft. slapshot past senior Nelia Worsley's glove side at 3:27. Eli Lynn Cruishank added a power-play goal at 10:18, making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Outscored But Not Outplayed | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

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