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...Northwind, which was hobbling on five of its six engines. Within seconds, the tanker was surrounded by ice hummocks blown into its wake by high winds. Captain Steward reversed the engines, then charged the Arctic ice, which, because of its age, had lost its salt content and become rock-hard. When the 10-to 15-ft.-thick ice would not give after twelve hours, the stubby Canadian icebreaker John A. Macdonald was called to the rescue...
Three weeks ago, I thought today's game at the Stadium would be very embarrassing for Harvard. Cornell had a rock-hard defense and a potentially high-scoring offense. The potential has not been fulfilled. In its first two games, the Big Red got 17 points, but last week could manage only eight against a Pennsylvania team which yielded 13 to Brown. Harvard's defense has done well, despite some trouble with short passers like Domres and Holy Cross's Phil O'Neil. The offense moves the ball well, but occasionally has trouble crossing goal lines. 17-15 hasn...
...Rock-Hard Canvases. Vlaminck did his best oils in 1905 and 1906, when he lived in the small Seine-side Paris suburb of Chatou. The burly, Belgian-descended artist had been a professional cyclist and cabaret violinist who taught himself to paint. In later years, he recalled: "I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method." In fact, his method of squeezing colors directly from the paint tubes onto the canvas was largely inspired by viewing the Van Gogh exhibition of 1901. In addition, portraits such as L'Enfant Madeline betray...
...brutal check from Seal Defender George Swarbrick that seemed to stagger him. Hull's shoulders sagged, his curved stick came up, and for the briefest instant, Swarbrick relaxed. Whap! Hull's stick slashed downward; 25 ft. away, Goalie Hodge could not even begin to react as the rock-hard rubber disk, traveling at better than 100 m.p.h., whistled past his knee into...
More Than Peanuts. The result not only vindicated Martin Luther King's Montgomery bus boycott-it also keyed Johnson's whole judicial development. If a right applied in one area, he quickly applied it in another-always in spare, lucid opinions based on rock-hard facts. Thus, in 1963, Johnson broadened the Supreme Court's famous Gideon right-to-counsel decision (1961) by ruling that court-appointed lawyers must be paid for their services because the Constitution requires "effective" counsel. Congress soon followed with a law requiring payment in federal courts everywhere in the U.S. Conversely, last...