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...Berry was called for the personal, then to the spot of the Crimson’s failed final possession. “I say don’t call either, but just do the same thing at both ends.Questionable calls throughout the game upset Delaney-Smith, Columbia coach Paul Nixon, and fans on both sides.“The officials were bad,” Tay said, “but they were probably bad both ways.” THREE PARTY The league’s top-two three-point shooting teams took turns launching shots from longe range...
...cosmopolitan places register in Springfield as the merest ripples and breezes. If this isn't a place that time forgot, it is certainly a place that occasionally slips time's mind. The dominant feature of the skyline is the Hilton tower, 30 stories high. It was built during the Nixon administration, and still feels like a hotel where Howard Hughes might be padding around with Kleenex boxes on his feet up on the top floor. (See video of what it is like to be Mr. Lincoln...
...After being drafted into the Army in 1970 and being stationed in Washington, D.C. for two years - part of his job was to salute President Nixon as he boarded the presidential helicopter - Kerlikowske became a police officer in St. Petersburg, Fla. He ran two small police departments in Florida before being hired as chief of police in Buffalo...
...these films; after all, they made 'em. It's that they don't think the grand-scale technical skill lavished on a Dark Knight or an Iron Man is as honorable as the spectacle of two guys talking--as long as one of them is Richard Nixon...
America's generals love to brag about their all-volunteer Army. That's because they tend to overlook Jeffrey Mellinger. He donned his Army uniform for the first time on April 18, 1972, about the time the Nixon Administration was seeking "peace with honor" in Vietnam and The Godfather was opening on the silver screen. Nearly 37 years later, he's still wearing Army green. Mellinger is, by all accounts, the last active-duty draftee serving in the U.S. Army...