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...even more dramatic performance against Los Angeles on Dec. 11. With the 49ers trailing the Rams 27-10 and only a shade over ten minutes left to play, Montana first threw a touchdown pass to Mike Wilson, then dumped a slant pass to wide receiver John Taylor, who shook four tacklers and dashed for a 95-yd. touchdown. Less than three minutes later, All-Pro halfback Roger Craig scored on a 1-yd. plunge to give San Francisco a 30-27 victory. Said Rams Coach John Robinson of Montana: "I just think he's the best quarterback who ever played...
...long seconds the ground shook. Buildings crumbled, cars were flattened, at least ten people were killed, and some 120 were injured. The first major earthquake to hit an Australian city struck the New South Wales port of Newcastle, 100 miles north of Sydney, at 10:28 a.m. last Thursday. Said one resident: "It felt like there was someone under my bedroom floor who lifted the house...
...crescendo of toppling communist dominoes shook Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, 71, vowed that reform would come to Rumania "when pears grow on poplar trees." He ignored warnings from Gorbachev that he should begin easing up before it was too late to avoid violence. After 24 years of ruling by fear, Ceausescu rejected the idea of change...
...detractors say, perhaps unfairly, that if you put Gagosian and the rest of his ilk in a bag and shook it for a week you wouldn't get an ounce of connoisseurship. But that is not what counts. What does count is the instinct for when to grab the chicken, the hot artist, and get a lock on his or her work...
...dining hall COCA announced itself; they scared me, then explained why, and they shook me up a bit. In the letter, they didn't. They were out to trick me, to play games with me--to play a prank. But a prank with a message...