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...expect from a man who had just seen his squad's record fall to 12-12 overall 4-8 in Ivy action. But the cagers have reasons to be cheerful. They showed that they can compete on a level with the best that the Ivy League has to otter and they displayed the courage to bounce back from a though set back and nearly knock off the top team in the league...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Cagers Drop Cliffhanger to Princeton, 79-75, Win Respect While Losing Weekend Games | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...Havilland Canada Twin Otter set down on the ice at the North Pole a few days ago. The ice cracked and the plane began to sink slowly into the slush of the Arctic Ocean. Everyone clambered out onto safer ice: two crewmen and seven tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Is the Going Still Good? | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...another side of the triangle is the man who engineered the liner's demise, a Nazi spy posing as a Dutch salvage expert. Code-named the Otter, he is the illegitimate son of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of German military intelligence, and thus has unlimited backing in a behind-the-lines war of disruption and sabotage aimed at closing the Port of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tides of War | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...Triangle's overt heroes belong to a tough little unit called Group M, which spearheaded British intelligence in New York. They are engaged in a desperate effort to pin down Otter and keep the Atlantic sea lanes open. As an ironic result of Gates' own efforts to track down the master saboteur, the British group is convinced that he is the Otter. Gates meanwhile has found out that the German has smuggled over a minisub and plans to torpedo the Queen Mary with 15,000 troops aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tides of War | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...stores; a theme amusement park of the Disneyland sort has been talked of; Muppets have been visible in TV commercials and in guest appearances on such varied offerings as the old Ed Sullivan Show and the current Saturday Night Live. This week an hour-long TV special, Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, is on view in the U.S. And, of course, the Muppets Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, who lives in a garbage can, and the renowned Big Bird, who is 8 ft. tall and has not just an arm but an entire person inside him, have presided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

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