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The maneuver earned Sides five minutes in the penalty box, during which time Harvard skated furiously back and forth between its own goal and Yale's blue line trying to get off a decent shot. Finally at 13:33, Ron Thomson blasted a hard one from the blue line that...

Author: By Efrem Sigel, | Title: Sextet Slips by Yale 6-5, Win Clinches League Title | 2/25/1963 | See Source »

Item. About two weeks elapsed between de Gaulle's threat to blackball British entry into the Common Market and the execution of that threat. During this interval, Washington let it be known in Bonn that a delay in the ratification of the Franco-German Pact would be welcome to the...

Author: By Jonathan R. Walton., | Title: Divorce-Kennedy Style | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

Unfit Islanders. In De Gaulle's Europe, France is first, Germany second, and the rest nowhere-they can tag along respectfully as camp followers, with little more weight or voice than tiny Luxembourg. Britain is rejected as unfit economically or politically to join this band of continental brothers because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: A New & Obscure Destination | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

The little spacecraft will have its own retrorocket to start its slanting down toward the atmosphere. Guidance apparatus will do most of the navigation and report to the passenger on the success of the perilous maneuver. Dr. Brodsky is confident that the plastic-faced wings can resist the heat of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Rescue in Orbit | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

The Small Martingale. Professional gamblers generally take Mathematician Thorp and his computerized charts with a sneer and a leer; system players, they say, are always ultimate losers because they play on and on, giving the house odds a chance to operate. The only successful system, known as the Small Martingale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games: Beating the Dealer | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

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