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Hill's whirlwind shooting spree began when he lofted in a 15-footer to cut Penn's lead to 14-7. Irion then ham-and-egged with an arching hook to make it 14-9 with 11:00 showing in the half...
Having just given the hook to 20 White House limousines, Carter broke further ground by eating lunch with staffers in the White House mess (the President's order: a cheeseburger and iced tea). At his second Cabinet meeting, he was pleased to find his lieutenants following his lead: the Interior Secretary had closed the department's VIP dining room for senior officials and eliminated five limousines, the Attorney General had dismissed his private FBI bodyguards. The White House also requested-and, not surprisingly, was granted-the early reprieve of Mary Fitzpatrick from a Georgia prison so that...
...kilometers (10 miles) of gravel road so that it could withstand the shuttle's 68,000-kilogram (150,000-lb.) weight. They also constructed a special trailer to carry the craft, a 90-wheel affair designed to be steered both from the front and the rear like a hook-and-ladder truck...
...left to play and thereafter the cagers' offense began to fizzle. After a three-minute scoring lull with both squads tied at 39, Yale piled up a 48-41 lead. During the cold spell, the hoopsters went eight minutes without a field goal before Irion dropped a whirling hook from the baseline...
...asked the fire department to come over and shut it off, but they sent over the hook and ladder," said a member who wished to remain anonymous. "They really overreacted," he added. The firefighters remained at the club for approximately 15 minutes...