Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allowing five consecutive goals to go unanswered in a 20-minute span between the first and second periods, the icemen fell behind 5-1 before making a semi-game of it with a belated rally...
Poor Kris Kristofferson. The former Pomona College football star, now 40, pulled a hamstring muscle while playing Shake Tiller, a good ole boy and pass-catchin' end in the movie being made from Dan Jenkins' novel Semi-Tough. Burt Reynolds, a onetime running back for Florida State, is cast as Shake's pal, the hard-drinking, womanizing hero, Billy Clyde Puckett. During the filming in Dallas Reynolds was constantly surrounded by groupies. What to do? Taking a tip from Puckett, he claims he "got 'em upstairs as quick as possible...
...agencies that set vaccine policy in the United States, the Bureau of Biologics at the Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Disease Control, tend to rely repeatedly on the same few experts for advice. For example, the Bureau's semi-independent advisory board is chaired by Saul Krugman, who gained notoriety (unfairly, some researchers believe) for infecting retarded children with hepatitis in order to study their condition, and many other members of the board have also experimented in state schools for the retarded. The board is not likely, then, to rigidly enforce ethical standards against other researchers...
...Harvard J.V. hockey team trounced the semi-pro Budweiser Kings Saturday afternoon, 10-3. The Crimson iced the victory with three successive goals in a two-minute span during the final period...
...boxing movies: The Greatest, all about, natch, Muhammad Ali, who plays himself; Raging Bull, starring Robert DeNiro as former Middleweight Champ Jake LaMotta; and a comedy called Knockout, in which a clothes designer buys a boxer as a tax shelter. For football fans there is Dan Jenkins' Semi-Tough, which began shooting in Dallas last week, with Kris Kristofferson and Burt Reynolds. Says Jenkins: "The script is really a sequel to my book-a sort of Son of Semi-Tough. " For hockey nuts there is Slapshot, starring Paul Newman. Newman insisted on doing his own skating during the violent...