Word: slammings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing tickles a satellite nation more than turning the tables on Mother Russia. And last week at Grenoble, a pro-caliber Russian hockey team that had not lost a game in international competition since 1963 got its comeuppance from a gang of slam-bang Czechs, who spotted the Soviets a 1-0 lead, then struck back to win 5-4 and pull off the biggest upset of the entire winter games. Russia still managed to salvage a slightly tarnished gold medal when the Czechs could manage no better than a 2-2 tie in their final game against Sweden...
...news hit Australia and the world like the slam of a bullet. At first, there was disbelief. Such things just did not happen in affable, easy-going Australia, and certainly not to its Prime Minister. What astonished many was that the ruler of so large a nation should go about so casually and unguarded. Holt had neither wanted nor received any secret-service protection-an individualistic privilege that no other Prime Minister is likely to enjoy. Not until long hours after Holt's disappearance did the numbing awareness of truth finally set in. The full impact arrived only when...
...keep it up, Mike," radioed Knight. "Let's keep it up." But he heard no more from the X-15. Nobody saw it slam into the sparse Mojave Desert sagebrush 60 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Adams was aboard-the first man to die in an X-15. He did not-or could not-use the ejection device that might have parachuted him to safety...
...Minnesota sailor. "We took them 20 to 15," grinned Old Gopher Humphrey. Jetting up to Phu Bai, a small Marine outpost near the embattled DMZ, he boarded a transport plane for a look at Con Thien and Dong Ha. Circling at 1,500 feet, he Watched Marine artillery fire slam the Communist positions hidden among the craters ("Just like Minnesota," he said, pointing to the thousands of rain-filled shell holes), then landed at Danang for an afternoon of pep talks and presentations (a Presidential Unit Citation to the Third Marines, Silver Stars and Distinguished Service Crosses to Americans...
...changed as well: he is less of a judge, more of a counselor. "A legalistic church was very easy," says a Dominican in Seattle. "I could say to a person 'you are wrong,' exact promises from him never to do it again, give him absolution, and slam the sliding door. But that isn't what confession is all about." Theologian James Burtchaell, 33, of Notre Dame, describes the priest's new confessional role as "nondirective counseling," by which he means "not giving advice but helping you talk your way through problems you already know the answer...