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...SECOND period of Harvard's opening hockey game against New Hampshire, Crimson defenseman Bobby Muse let go a slop shot from the point. As New Hempshire goalie Bob Smith sprawled to make the save, a Harvard player suddenly reached out with his stick and deflected the puck past smith into the net. Dave Hyne's had his first goal of the 1972-1973 hockey season...
...persuade the President to boost the economy with a tax cut, but he underestimated the dampening effect of new withholding schedules. Partly as a result of this, his planned $38 billion budget deficit will be about $10 billion smaller, and some Government spending intended for this fiscal year may slop over into the year beginning July 1. That shift could well raise the need for spending cuts later this year lest the economy become overheated...
There is indeed more folksiness than foppery in the offstage Doc (real name: Carl). He lives in New Jersey on a 65-acre spread called Harmony Farms, where he likes to slop around in faded jeans and a five-gallon hat and pore over books on the bloodlines of his twelve race and show horses. After his weekday stints on TV, Doc, a teetotaler, tries as often as possible to drive home at 8:30 for dinner...
...bitterly testified. "If I catch you messing around with girls in any way," a mother tells her son in John O'Hara's A Rage to Live, "I'm going to send you to a military school in Virginia . . . They beat the boys and feed them slop, and keep them busy from six in the morning to nine at night...
...most confused polluters in America are the owners of the nation's estimated 1,500,000 pleasure boats. They contribute less than .07% of all sewage spilled into U.S. waterways, a drop in the slop bucket compared with the daily deluge from archaic municipal "treatment" plants, not to mention the wastes from waterside factories. Unorganized boatowners, though, seem an easier target than major polluters. The upshot is a flood of laws and regulations that boatmen consider arbitrary, capricious, discriminatory and unenforceable...