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...couple: the elusive Angleton and the swaggering William Harvey, an improbable pair of diverse talents and temperaments who together stood guard over America's secrets for much of the postwar era. Observes Martin: "Where Harvey had raged against the Soviet threat with basso profundo and six-shooter, Angleton seduced with a hypnotic blend of brilliance and mystique. Angleton was the Italian stiletto to Harvey's German Luger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lives of Luger and Stiletto | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

Dazzling footwork coupled with outstanding standing stickwork gives Predun a basis on which to out-finesse his opponents. Not a particularly hard shooter, he relies instead on shot placement to rack up the goals...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Peter Predun | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

Griffith, the tournament's Most Valuable Player, is an extraordinary outside shooter, and his pyrotechnic leaps for dunks and rebounds brought the school its first national title in any sport. The cheerful, 6-ft. 4-in. son of a Louisville steelworker. Griffith, 21, had carried his junior high and high school teams to state trophies, and he had hoped to do the same for his college. After the win, he exulted: "When I came here, I said that before I left, we'd get a national championship. Now I can say that I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: They Come to Play All the Way | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

When Frederick, the pianist, left, he disappeared through an exit by the bar that I hadn't noticed before. A lifesized cowboy painted on the door pointed his six-shooter straight at me. When we left shortly after, I saw that the hole in his gun formed the mouth of a midget clown painted on the outside. The mouth, contorted into an evil grin, said, "Enter never to leave; go forth never to return...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Underground at The Whiskey | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

...Fleming, once the Ivy League's leading scorer, collected a bare seven points; Tom Mannix, the team's best shooter, hit exactly one field goal toward a total of three points; fifth-man Robert Taylor rolled a donut; and sixth man Calvin Dixon had four...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Minutemen Post First Win of Season At Expense of Moribund Cagers, 67-44 | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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