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...doomsday scenario, then, would have the Russian trailer getting in just one shot at the 1,000-ft. carrier, presumably not enough to knock it out, before the 450-ft. trailer is attacked by the 164-ft. U.S. patrol craft and must defend itself. The Russians could, of course, assign a smaller boat to trail the U.S. trailer. Eventually a long line of vessels of diminishing size would string out over the Mediterranean. Each would wheel to fire its heavier weapons at the less lethal boat astern. The final casualty might well be a lone U.S. Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Trailing the Trailers | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

Sometimes it's hard to believe that Brown can score, much less make the ECAC play-offs. But last night the Bruins played their unthinking, ferocious game well enough to nearly knock Harvard out of the running, coming back to tie the game in the third period before falling...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Puckmen Top Bruins, 4-3, As Fight Empties Benches | 3/10/1971 | See Source »

...voluntary prayers in public schools. "I believe in a wall between church and state so high," says Ervin, "that no one can climb over it." Though a strong law-and-order man, he vainly fought the Nixon Administration's District of Columbia crime bill with its controversial "no-knock" and preventive-detention provisions. He called it "a garbage pail of some of the most repressive, intolerant, unfair and vindictive legislation that the Senate has ever been presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Conservative Libertarian | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

They gave her The Third Day ("I played a sex pervert") and The April Fools. "That was the knock on the head. When they finally sent me the script it was The Boston Strangler Revisited. I played another cold woman. But I went around for a lot of interviews before the film was released, and I could say that I had played Jack Lemmon's wife. I made it sound like it was Sally and Jack all the way, instead of four lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Barge Is Sailing Along | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

None of which bothers Muhammad Ali one whit: "Humph! Bob Foster, a li'I ol' 188-pounder. Now ain't that something! I wouldn't even spar with a man that size. But the press and the bookies are shoutin' 'Who-e-e-e! Joe Frazah knocked him out, knocked him dead!' What they should have done is look what I did to Oscar and what Oscar did to Joe Frazier. All Oscar did was to knock Joe Frazier down twice in their first fight and then whip his face so bad that his eyes were swollen closed. And when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bull v. Butterfly: A Clash of Champions | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

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