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...headed a rebound into the left corner for an unassisted tally and the only score of the second half. The "hat trick" producing play started on a pass from Demetrio Mena which Papagianis headed toward the goal; the ball hit the bar and bounced back to the shooter who confidently put it away...
...could have condemned Eagleton, with some justification, for failing to mention his psychiatric problems when the vice presidential nomination had been proposed, and then dumped him from the ticket. This would have been cruel to Eagleton, but it might have preserved McGovern's reputation as a straight shooter...
...Beaver Falls, Joe starred in baseball (and was eventually offered a major-league contract), was the fanciest dribbler and best shooter on his high school basketball team, and became one of the town's leading pool sharks. He stayed in football only at the head coach's insistence and ultimately led Beaver Falls to a western Pennsylvania championship. His college boards kept him out of Maryland and Notre Dame, so he headed south to Alabama and the ineluctable embrace of Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant. No one has ever dominated the Bear, but Namath at least baited...
THINGS ARE GETTING complicated for the con boys these days. It's no longer quite as easy to ride roughshod over the range six shooter in hand, rustling a few hundred heads here and there. Today's Texas stock is mostly paper not cattle or sheep, but as Harvey Katz's expose of Texas politics demonstrates that same frontier morality still exists, despite the increasing complexities of the world of high finance...
...clear how specific a device the platform is; in the past the Party has united behind a series of rousing cliches," said Liebman, who until two years ago served as a trouble-shooter for New York Mayor John Lindsay...