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...margin with a goal at 15:10 on a three man rush on the goalie. Cavanagh won the face-off, passed it to Owens, and then DeMichele took Owen's pass the length of the ice before scoring. Jim Horning closed out the scoring at 18:12 on a point-blank wrist shot...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Skaters' Late Surge Downs Dartmouth, 6-3 | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...Eleanor of Aquitaine held Dear Abby attitudes. "I want the Aquitaine for John!" "I want it for Richard!" Nyaahnyaah. Like a medieval collection of Games People Play, but they play them so fast we lose track. Back and forth, one by one every character confronts every other and asks point-blank "Why didn't you love me?" And one by one, tediously, every character replies in the best spirit of medieval modern psychoanalysis. It's as if some Pinter couple, perverted, got its kicks from holding its quarrels in medieval costumes. "You led too many civil wars against me" chuckles...

Author: By David W. Boorstin, | Title: The Lion in Winter | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...Mansoura high school boys, aged 14 to 17, went on a rampage against the decree. They were later joined by nonstudents, who turned the demonstration into a full-dress political protest with cries of "Down with Nasser!" When the mob marched on police headquarters, police opened fire at point-blank range, killing one blind high school student and three nonstudents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: The Ramadan of Their Discontent | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...aggressive Harvard J.V. soccer team rammed in three point-blank shots for goals and out-muscled an undermanned Brown team yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marchese Sparks JV Soccer Team Over Bruins, 3-1 | 10/31/1968 | See Source »

...revolver, the same type as that used in the killing. The Los Angeles County coroner testified that Senator Kennedy was struck with three bullets, rather than two as originally thought. The third landed in back of the right armpit, near the second. The shots had apparently been fired at point-blank range, at least one of them only two or three inches from the victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Building a Biography | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

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