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...good judgment of goalie Flynn was a major factor in the Crimson's ability to stay within reach of the Eagles. Flynn, with a total of 24 saves to D'Eatremont's 27, left the crease seven times during the game to grab a loose puck away from reaching B.C. sticks.Boston College goalie CHUCK D'ENTREMONT does the spilt to save a shot off the stick of Crimson defenseman DOGU MANCHESTER in the second period of last night's game at the Boston Garden. Manchester is closely covered by an unidentified Eagle player...
What will happen next is almost anyone's guess. The rays pack a lot of energy, and when they hit molecules in the mixture, they will tear them apart by breaking chemical bonds. Since the broken places are highly reactive, they will grab the nearest suitable atom, thus creating molecules of new compounds. They will speed up familiar reactions, start unfamiliar ones, and form compounds that the chemists have never seen before...
...Bullet Is Waiting (Welsch; Columbia). In old-fashioned movies, when an innocent girl was trapped with two desperate men in a cabin miles from anywhere, the bad guy made his grab and wound up on a slab, while the good guy took the lady to the preacher. But times have changed. In this picture, for instance the cabin serves as a sort of alchemical vessel in which all the characters are essentially transformed. As a matter of fact after sitting in that cabin for about 85 minutes the moviegoer may never be the same again, either...
Another abuse that should be eliminated is the free-wheeling committee, or Congressman, who plunges into an investigation of anything which looks like a headline. One of the sorriest spectacles of recent years was the flight by waterboys of three different committees to see which one could first grab a particular witness and the front page space that went with him. Each committee should be limited to specific areas, and then forces to stay within the bounds of the original grant of power...
Flanked by busts of Washington and Lincoln, Avery announced that he had hired an outside public-relations firm to present his case to stockholders and would use "every legitimate means to resist the raiding parties being organized to grab the large liquid assets of the company." As far as Wolfson was concerned, snapped Avery: "I don't know what is in his mind . . . This is all a very savage and vicious thing and a menace to the United States. Management is hired to run a profitable business and protect the interests of stockholders. We intend to continue...