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Shortly before halftime the Rangers regained the lead after Sabelli learned up with Shattuck and right back Leo Lanzillo to make it 2-1. Lanzillo started the play with a long pass to a flying Shattuck, who fired a missile across the goalmouth. Sabelli only had to knock the projectile slightly with his shin into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Spare Tires' No Problem; Michelin Wins Tourney | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...People will know about me through what they read or what they see. They don't have to have somebody knock on the door and hand them a leaflet." And people almost certainly will be reading about and seeing a great deal of Hart, thanks to his surprise victory in New Hampshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now It's Really a Race: Colorado Senator Gary Hart | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

Very rarely does a Soviet tell the agitatori that he or she does not intend to vote. In Stalin's time, not voting literally led to a midnight knock on the door and a one-way ticket to Siberia. Now there are no overt punishments, but a notation may be entered in the non-voter's police file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: One Party, One Vote | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...right, knock off the snickers. This is going to be done straight. Larry Harmon, 59, better known as Bozo, "the world's most famous clown," was in Washington, D.C., last week to announce he is a candidate for the U.S. presidency. "I'm wearing glasses because they make me look a little more like a statesman than I already do," said Harmon, who is running in full regalia on the Bozo Party ticket. The native of Toledo, who started on TV some 35 years ago, claims that he got a hankering for the nation's highest office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 12, 1984 | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...great year for us," Kramnaick adds. "It would be wonderful to knock off Harvard. Everybody at Cornell feels great when we beat Harvard, whether it's the number of Nobel Prizes, Rhodes Scholarships, Guggenheim Fellowships for the faculty or in hockey or basketball...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: You Call It | 3/2/1984 | See Source »

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