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Rematch? Mismatch was more like it. By game time, the odds makers had installed U.C.L.A. as an eight-point fa vorite on the strength of a tougher schedule and no losses since the Houston upset. But no one remotely expect ed anything like the slaughter that followed. Attacking from the first tipoff, Coach John Wooden's Bruins outran, outpassed, outshot, and outrebounded the Cougars. Final score: U.C.L.A. 101, Houston...
Five Doubles. When the slaughter was over, the first question was how Houston could ever have beaten U.C.L.A. The second was why the sportswriters could have considered the January game anything but a fluke, a good team catching a great team on a very off night. Without making excuses, U.C.L.A.'s Coach Wooden at the time pointed out that 7-ft. If -in. Lew Alcindor was still seeing double, after an eye injury, that Guard Mike Warren, the team's playmaker, was weak with...
...annual slaughter increased in brutality each year until finally in 1860 the Faculty outlawed its existence. There were, in that year, better ways for Northern gentlemen to vent their spleen. With an air of defiance, a group of players held a funeral service--complete with procession and eulogy for the sport. They dug a grave and buried a pigskin. Football at Harvard was officially dead...
Ever since Hannah Arendt's provocative study on the Eichmann case, there has been no end of speculation along the lines of her major thesis: that the Nazis could not have succeeded in their slaughter of the Jews without the almost lamblike acquiescence of their victims. And there was no dearth of angry disagreement. These two books are the latest in a still-growing list that challenges the Arendt argument. In The Holocaust, Philadelphia-based Historian Nora Levin maintains that the Jews "resisted physically much more than is generally known, and under conditions that are scarcely credible." In While...
...slaughter of the sea otter began in 1741 with a Russian exploratory expedition to the Commander Islands. Unfortunately, the sea otter's trusting nature aided in its destruction. These naturally tame animals would swim up to the small boats, only to be clubbed to death by hunters...