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After winning the toss and electing to receive, Yale started the game in slam-bang fashion. Jim Fisher took Jim Babcock kickoff on his two-yard line, veered to the left, and eluded the grasp of several Harvard tacklers. He was finally hit on the Crimson's 36-yard line by safetyman Tom Williamson after a gain of 62 yards...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer and Donald E. Graham, S | Title: HARVARD BEATS YALE 13-0 | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

Doubles, which won the Princeton match for Harvard, spelled defeat against Penn. Hamlin' serve and Reese's overall power was too much slam-bang for Steels and Peckham, who bowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn Topples Netmen, 5-4 | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

Laboratory Search. The search for this hardy life should not be carried out in a hasty, slam-bang manner, said the report. The first step, though, can be carried out at once: laboratory work aimed at determining just what kinds of life are chemically possible. If chemical systems are found that might be the basis of novel, non-earthly forms of life, the instruments sent to Mars should be equipped to look for them as well as for familiar life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exobiology: The Search for Martian Life | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

GOLDFINGER. Another slam-bang spoof of Ian Fleming's fiction has James Bond (Sean Connery) testing his mettle with a gilded nude, a shapely henchwoman named Pussy Galore, and a master criminal who plans to pry the gold out of Fort Knox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 25, 1964 | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

People might have been more surprised if he had told them the sun had come up on schedule that morning. Rocky has been running hard for a long while. But he injected some fresh drama into the occasion by charging off to New Hampshire, where he planned a slam-bang handshaking tour to kick off his campaign. It was raining buckets that day, but Rocky plodded gamely on, sometimes through ankle-deep mud. Despite the storm, he found hundreds of hands to shake. And he played the grass-roots campaigner to the hilt. In Milford he sipped a chocolate soda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: 1 Shall Go to New Hampshire | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

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