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Banged Ear. In recent years, Tory Leo Amery crossed the floor to slap the face of Laborite George Buchanan; Labor's Emmanuel Shinwell, outraged at a reference to his Polish ancestry, punched Tory Commander Robert Bower (once an amateur boxing champion) and damaged his eardrum. Conservative Ronald McNeil obtained a sort of immortality by throwing a book at Winston Churchill; he missed...
...slap was aimed not only at the Prime Minister but at his party and platform as well, as Tory Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home was quick to emphasize. "It is the country's verdict on the first 100 days of Socialism in practice," crowed Sir Alec. Added Jo Grimond, leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons: "If Mr. Wil son wants to stay in office, he really must start doing things which appeal to a wider public than the hard-core Socialist voters...
...among the peasants, he spends almost as much time on the stump as he does behind his desk. Nothing suits him so much as jumping behind the controls of an air force DC-3 and flying off to some remote pocket of the Andean country to shake hands and slap backs...
John Daly's first-period slap shot bounced out of Perani's hand and into the net to open the scoring at 14:05. Gonzales got his first two goals later in the period, both with quick shots on passes from McCullough...
With the Crimson's Bill Fitzsimmons turning in 25 saves in the game, the Huskles could never come back. Jimmy Leu tipped in Don Turootte's well-screened slap shot to spoll Fitzsimmons' shutout at 3:45 of the final period...