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...great to have a fourth line you have real confidence in." Cleary said "you really need them to give the others a rest especially after power plays and penalty killing situations." The fourth line of senior Jay Riley, and sophomores Steve Dagdigian and Jim McMahon accounted for four points in Saturday's contest...
...exactly a battle of titans. A pre-election poll for the Sydney Telegraph showed that neither Incumbent Prime Minister William McMahon nor Opposition Leader Edward Gough Whitlam was regarded as trustworthy by a majority of the Australian electorate. An editorial in the Melbourne Age said that voters faced a choice between "the flawed pragmatism of McMahon versus the flawed vision of Whitlam." But in a nation where failing to vote can bring a $10 fine, it was a choice that had to be made. Last week the Aussies made it. They rejected the Liberal Party-Country Party coalition government...
...diminutive Billy McMahon, 64, the campaign was his first since he won the Liberal Party leadership 21 months ago in a messy internal battle that toppled controversial Prime Minister John Gorton, 61. McMahon's political skills seemed to desert him as he tried to rule the country. He waffled over decisions; and often after he finally made them, he had to reverse them. His campaign performance was equally uninspiring. In Perth he told a rally that his government was looking forward to "increasing opportunities for unemployment." At Melbourne he pledged: "We will honor the problems we have made...
...extension of the vote to 18-year-olds and a new national anthem to replace God Save the Queen. With so little to choose between the parties and platforms, it was probably not surprising that voters spent much of the campaign inventing new ways to show irritation. Some pelted McMahon with jelly beans, and one woman, in a Down Under variation of the Bronx cheer, yanked out her dentures and clacked her teeth...
This season the Crimson have four strong lines, all of which played well Saturday night. "The line of Thorndike. Reynolds and Desmond deserved to score a hundred goals, they worked our forechecking system to a tee. The sophomore line (Dagdigan, Gauthier and McMahon) also looked good out there...