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Fair guess-considering that Blake's favored Canadiens trailed the ragtag Red Wings 2-0 after the first two games of the best-of-seven playoffs. The Canadiens were the defending Stanley Cup champions. They had won the regular-season National Hockey League championship (Detroit finished fourth), and they had wiped up the ice with the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-0 in the playoff semifinals. By comparison, the main thing the Red Wings had going for them was Gordie Howe, the alltime scoring champion (with 624 goals) of the N.H.L. But Gordie was 37 and slowing down; eleven other...
...Even the ragtag New York Rangers refused to lie down. After handing the Hawks a third straight shutout in New York, they skated into Chicago hellbent on making it four. The 20,000 home-town fans who had sardinepacked themselves into the 17,100-capacity Chicago Stadium sat in mute agony as the Hawks fell behind 2-0. Hull could do nothing. Then in the third period, Chicago warmed the ice. And minutes later, with the score 2-1, the Rangers were penalized a man. It looked like Hull's chance. Up went an expectant, hopeful cheer...
...country well in Viet Nam? He received a telegram on the battlefield which read: 'We regret to inform you that your mother and father were killed "in action" in Los Angeles.' " When a Mississippi anti-poverty program folded, Ward bade farewell to the "slew-footed, unsoaped ragtag of human flotsam who were roaming Mississippi to create hate and provoke a killing...
Eleven months before his death, he gave his 105-piece collection of modern sculpture to the state of Israel. "In this clip-clap, ragtag life," he proclaimed, "this is the most heartwarming thing I have ever done." But the loneliness of the short-distance runner still stayed with him, and to the end he never stopped competing...
...Eugene Burdick as a kind of summing-up of their latest oversimplified, sometimes fatuous but, as usual, highly readable attack on U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. Returning after seven years to the ancient and mythical kingdom of Sarkhan, where they first discovered The Ugly American, they find the usual ragtag group of bumbling, arrogant and stupid Americans. The Communists, of course, are as smart as ever. Even smarter. For, instead of being satisfied slowly to win over the Sarkhanese masses because the Americans are too lazy to learn their language and customs, the Communists are plotting a fraudulent invasion...