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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...