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...only unwrapped presents of the evening are Orson Bean and Phyllis Newman. Fighting hotel-room eviction by wearing nothing but a towel (they can't throw her out nude), Comedienne Newman has one of the two numbers that threaten to wake up the show, I Was a Shoo-in, a hilariously mimed saga of how she missed being Miss America. Comic Bean, a twitchy bundle of broken watchsprings, has the other: he begs her to seduce him by putting on some clothes...
...Island and make its runways dangerous for aircraft. Naval experts on bird migration suspect that gooney birds navigate to their breeding island by following the earth's magnetic field. If the secrets of the gooneys' system can be uncovered by radio, the Navy may be able to shoo the birds magnetically away from Midway...
...election last week, Poulson figured as a shoo-in for a third term. The nine-candidate field was full of flyweights. There were no issues in the nonpartisan election ("It was the most boring campaign I can remember," said a local editor), and only 41% of the voters turned out. But the election did not quite work out according to plan. Poulson led, but his 179,273 votes were nearly 100,000 less than the combined total of his opponents and he was forced into a May 31 runoff election with former Democratic Congressman Sam Yorty, a lawyer and persistent...
Double Winner. The outcome of the Maple Leafs-Red Wings fracas turned on a combination of three factors. Toronto was hamstrung by injuries to key men. And the Leafs let down, sure they were a shoo-in after losing only twice to the Wings in 14 previous games. The Wings, on the other hand, particularly slopeshouldered Veteran Gordie Howe and Goalie Terry Sawchuk, played far above their mid-season form...
...East, RPI is a shoo-in to be chosen one of the tournament teams by the NCAA selection committee. After that, in the few weeks that remain in the season, it will be a battle between B.C., Harvard, St. Lawrence--and may be even Middlebury--for the second team choice. (Middlebury attracted more attention by routing Amherst 16 to 1 Wednesday. Ranked fifth in the East, the Panthers now have a 12-1 record...