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...treaty with the Soviet Union in March, he gave China a long-awaited chance to develop its own special relationship with Egypt. Within days after Sadat's action, Peking announced that it would give Sadat 30 new engines for Egypt's aging Soviet-built MIGS-a direct slap at the Soviets, who had refused to supply spare parts for the planes and had forbidden India...
...hasn't played hockey since his junior high school days nearly 40 years ago, and most of the ice he's seen lately has come from the family fridge. Still, Actor Paul Newman may just survive the rigors of his new movie Slap Shot. "I'm a hockey player," says Newman, 51, describing his role. "I'm somewhat over the hill, a little desperate and looking for a way to make things work." Newman, who played pool in The Hustler, tootled a trombone in Paris Blues and boxed in Somebody Up There Likes Me, insists that...
...have the most beautiful swing on the team," said freshman golfer Gene Purdy after firing a pacesetting 75 over the Concord Country Club, "It's like a slap shot, if you really want to know...
...level of carbon monoxide rises, the athlete's maximal work output decreases--Harvard's hockey players are no longer able to perform as well, skate as fast or hit as hard. Thirdly, the player's ability to determine time intervals (i.e. the time from when he hears the slap of the puck off the stick of his defenseman to when he expects it to be at his skates) is distinctly affected at these carbon monoxide levels, due to central nervous system oxygen deprivation...
...comments specifically only once: "Decisions about the direction of research should be left to individual investigators rather than deans..." The phrase, "direction of research," is vague and in another context the statement might seem benign. But in the midst of Bok's complaints it could be interpreted as a slap at the NIH-mandated review process and as a boost to the misguided notion that "freedom of inquiry" guarantees to all scientists the right to do as they please with their experimental subjects. Not that Bok accepts that notion; but since he offers no evidence that he rejects...