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WILLIAM R. HAMMER San Francisco...
...hardest shooter: his left-handed slap shot zips toward the goal at 118 m.p.h.-19 m.p.h. faster than the fastest measured pitch in baseball. Even his backhand tops 90 m.p.h. "Stopping one of Hull's shots on the pads is like being slugged by a sledge hammer," says Toronto Goalie Johnny Bower, and when New York's Jacques Plante tried to block one of Hull's slap shots with his gloved hand, it numbed his arm all the way to the elbow. The research institute concluded that Hull...
Suddenly Savio appeared from nowhere to grab the microphone. Before 13,000 astonished spectators, a campus policeman then grabbed Savio around the throat while another twisted his arm in a hammer lock. They dragged him away fighting, while a reporter thoughtfully held a microphone to his face. Minutes later, Savio was freed and when F.S.M. partisans yelled "We want Mario," he naturally had to be allowed to make his speech. It was really no speech at all, just a masterfully brief and low-keyed announcement of an F.S.M. rally...
...found out by the Viet Cong. Just as the French learned during their long, losing Indo-China campaign, the South Vietnamese and their U.S. advisers were discovering that you can't swat a fly with a sledgehammer-particularly if it takes too long to lift the hammer...
From Harvard came ten thousand men But the M-D dogs ran away to their den Knowin' if they came back again The Charles would be their home-o home-o, home-o, etc. David Maynard '67 Arra Avaklan '67 Robert Hammer...