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...fourth spot, John Stubbs won a knock-down drag-out affair when he took the deciding fifth game of his match 15-13 for a 3-2 victory. From then on, Harvard won 15 of 16 games as Clancy Nixon, Clark Bain, chuck Elliot and Jeff Secrest each shutout their opponents 3-0. Mitch Reese won his match in the sixth position...
...currently doing. Wayne, Stewart and Fonda, last survivors of the generation of giants, have become old men despite our most imaginative efforts not to acknowledge that dismaying fact. Brando broods and thickens in the middle on his South Seas Elba, a character actor in search of characters he can knock off in a month's shooting time. Newman is good wine, aging nicely but often bottled strangely, so that it is hard to identify his essence. Redford is adorable, but when they enriched that handsome hunk of white bread, they somehow left out the mythic minerals. Nicholson is a wise...
Warns Péladeau: "If they try to do what we are doing, I will knock them out -no contest." Even if rivals do not try stooping to conquer, the publisher plans eventually to branch out in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit and Los Angeles. The imitation Journals doubtless will have plenty of local confections on page...
...rays act like cue balls in a kind of nuclear billiard game. When they strike and shatter atoms in the upper atmosphere, they produce a shower of subatomic bits of matter moving at great speed. When these so-called "secondary cosmic rays" collide with atoms in a cloud, they knock electrons from them. Accelerated in the cloud's electric field, these electrons avalanche toward the bottom of the cloud and pile up there...
Much of Martin's comedy relies on sight gags, which he pulls off very well. He may walk onto the stage and claim to be a professional comedian and then proceed to knock over the microphone. Or he may display his bunny ears or an arrow stuck through his head. At a concert earlier this year at Symphony Hall, Martin wanted to give his audience their money's worth and offered to show them "something you don't see every day." At that point he began to jump up and down and scream like a depraved lunatic...