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During the Middle Ages, the ancient sanctity of salt slid toward superstition. The spilling of salt was considered ominous, a portent of doom. (In Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper, the scowling Judas is shown with an overturned saltcellar in front of him.) After spilling salt, the spiller had to cast a pinch of it over his left shoulder because the left side was thought to be sinister, a place where evil spirits tended to congregate...
...that Turner's shot off the left side boards deflected off the shin guard of one of the referees, shooting into the zone toward the B.C. net. O'Connor, anticipating that the puck was headed for the back boards, got caught going the wrong way, and the puck just slid by him and inside the far post...
...were singing. Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh, Joel McCrea and Frances Dee, Don Ameche and Alice Faye, Howard Keel and Jane Powell: all raised their voices in joyous song. But Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton were struck dumb, doing their best to look as if they'd just slid down a laundry chute into the Twilight Zone...
Northeastern struck first when Toni Picarello slid a shot from the right point past a screened-out Tate and into the opposite side...
Declining productivity. High interest rates. Slipping stock markets. TIME'S Economy & Business section has dealt with these dismal themes all too often in recent months, as the American economy has slid deeper into recession. So it was with relief that Business staff members turned to a more cheerful phenomenon: the surprising surge in innovative businesses in America today, and the new generation of capitalists who are risking, and often winning, huge sums with their venturesome companies. "It is the other, upbeat side of the economy," says Business Senior Editor George M. Taber. Adds Staff Writer Alexander Taylor, who wrote...