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...Cantabs made it 2-1 at 17:11 of the second period, when sophomore Rob Ohno teamed with Busconi for a two-on-one breakaway. Busconi drew the defender, made the feed and watched as Ohno's shot entered the far side of the Golden Knight...
Embattled managers who hope to avoid corporate takeovers can draw upon a wide array of defenses. Many have acquired exotic names: Pac-Man, shark repellent, white knight. Some are more effective than others, and none, alas, work all the time...
...Corp., which came to Bendix's defense after former Chairman William Agee's attempt to take over Martin Marietta failed and Martin Marietta counterattacked by buying Bendix stock. Allied bought Bendix stock so Martin Marietta could not buy enough to gain control. That made Allied a white knight...
...that was merely Noël the singer. There was also Noël the playwright, Noël the actor, Noël the director, Noël the short-story writer, Noël the memoirist and, at the end, Sir Noël, knight of the British Empire. Yet of all his roles, Coward is likely to be remembered best as the songwriter with a taste for the bittersweet. Like Porter, he shied from passionate expression, sometimes in the belief that love, like moonlight, was "cruelly deceptive"; sometimes because he saw himself as an English Pierrot...
...whose owners minister to it as the Lone Ranger did to Silver. (Just as the cowboy could kiss his pony but not his gal, the new auto-cowboys make much of caressing the curves of their hoods.) The latest incarnation of the car as creature is NBC's Knight Rider, a computerized, talking Trans Am that is a lineal descendant (with a slight Freudian twist) of the grouchy 1928 Porter that haunted Jerry Van Dyke in My Mother the Car. Sleek and soigne, the car (with the sexually ambiguous name of Kitt) engages in flirty repartee with its pretty...