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Hines displayed flashes of brilliance in several late-season games, exploding in the second half of the Penn contest for 22 points. Sanders expected Hines to carry a lion's share of the offensive burden this winter...
That sounds like whistling in the dark, though it tends to prove the supposition that it is older folks, whose kids have left home, who are the principal deserters. Be that as it may, the networks are expected to try to buy back this audience - and ratings leadership - with late-season specials and hit theatrical movies. CBS throws That's Entertainment!, surefire nostalgia fare, into the Beacon Hill breach on Nov. 18. Meantime, the permanently disaffected will be found over at the independent channels, gnarled fingers twiddling the dial in hopes of glimpsing Matt Dillon, Chief Ironsides...
...story Hilton, which is half way between Buckingham Palace and the American embassy, was filled to capacity with late-season tourists. Possibly 100 people were milling around in the lobby when the tragedy took place. Just before noon, a switchboard operator at Associated Newspapers got a call from a man with an Irish accent warning that "a bomb will go off at the Hilton in ten minutes." Squad cars arrived at the hotel, but police were still trying to decide how to clear the area when, according to Anthony Peters, who manages the British Airways desk, "there was an almighty...
Harvard, meanwhile, will have three doubtful or sub-par starters tonight as late-season injuries mount. Forward Jim Thomas, who received a deep eight-stitch cut over his left eye against Cornell in the ECACs; center Leigh Hogan, who has been nagged by a stomach musical pull and defenseman Ed Rossi, with a shoulder problem could all be watching most of the game from the bench...
...which is worse: to be so out of it, like both teams in any contest among the hapless ones--the Padres (41 games out, no less), Giants, Astros, Angels, or Braves--or to be a late-season casualty, a "choke", such as the Redlegs, Phillies, or Bosox. One must wonder if it isn't more fun for Angel fans to go to the park with the idea that their team might chop off the grasping fingers of a club trying to maintain a handhold on first place, than to see a squirming team such as Boston, whose only hustle...