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Military electronics came of age in 1940 when British defense forces used bulky, primitive radars to spot fleets of approaching Luftwaffe bombers in time for R.A.F. interceptors to knock them out of the sky. Ever since, scientists have been busily expanding the world's electronic arsenals-while colleagues have been just as busy devising electronic countermeasures. The ingenuity and success of both efforts have been demonstrated in the skies and battlefields of Southeast Asia and the Middle East. The time-tested tactical adage that urges field commanders to "take the high ground" has now been all but replaced...
...things didn't quite follow anybody's pre-game expectations. At 14-17 of the first stanza, the Bulldogs' Frank Paveck gave Yale a 1-0 lead. Paveck pulled around Harvard defenseman Eddie Rosst and goalie Brian Petrovek committed himself, diving out headlong 15 feet in an attempt to knock the puck off Paveck's stick Petro missed, and Paveck backhanded the disc into the open...
...risk in skating out to trim the angle. If the goalie only deflects the puck, an opponent may slip behind him to flip a rebound into the open net. Should he glide beyond the crease, the goalie is subject to the bone-rattling body checks that players use to knock opponents out of the play. Parent usually manages to avoid these griefs by trapping the puck cleanly or deflecting it toward the corner with his stick...
Soviet Role. The Israelis and Arabs tried quickly to knock down dangerous conjectures about trouble ahead. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who wound up his first official call on France's President Valery Giscard d'Estaing with a sizable order for French armaments, insisted that "for the first time in 26 years, peace is possible." Israel's leaders reaffirmed their intention of ceding large chunks of Sinai in return for guarantees of nonaggression...
With the temporary demise of Cornell hockey, a new powerhouse is beginning to flex its muscles in the East. And that team, the Vermont Catamounts, will be at Watson Rink tonight (7:30 p.m. starting time) looking to pull a major upset and knock Harvard from its unbeaten ECAC petch...