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Junior Bill Diercks played a strong game in the nets for Harvard, gloving point-blank shots by Sheehy and Mike Flynn and kicking aside another half-dozen shots headed for the corners...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Harvard Topples B.C. 6-4 in Beanpot; Crimson Will Meet Terriers for Title | 2/6/1968 | See Source »

...first line joined the party at 14:45. Bobby Fredo took the puck down the boards into the left corner. While the Brown defense tried to set up, Kent Parrot skated from the corner to the crease and scored from point-blank range...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Powerful Iceman Crush Brown, 7-3 | 12/18/1967 | See Source »

...sport but in earnest." The Barrow gang -Bonnie and Clyde, his brother Buck and wife Blanche, their goofy, moonfaced driver, C. W. Moss-proves the truth of that maxim with its targets. At first, the shots are scattered in the air, like careless shouts. Then one lands point-blank in the face of a bank clerk. Blood hurts onto the screen, and from that instant, the audience is torn between horror and glee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Shock of Freedom in Films | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...finest of Axten's saves--a diving grab of a grasscutter aimed at the far corner--came in the first period, Yale's strongest. Two minutes after that try, Crimson captain Joe Gould robbed Yale's left wing of an open-net, point-blank shot with a lunging deflection of a perfect center which had passed Axten...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Harvard Booters Dump Eli, 2-1 On Scores by Vargas, Robertson | 11/27/1967 | See Source »

...dense foliage. There, early last week, two companies of Bolivian Rangers totaling more than 180 men split into two columns and quietly stalked a handful of guerrillas. Shortly after noon, the troops spotted their men, and both sides opened up with their rifles and automatic weapons at a withering, point-blank range of 150 feet. After a lengthy fight, four Rangers and three guerrillas lay dead, and four other guerrillas had been captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: End of a Legend | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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