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Forty seconds later pointman Joe Mullen faked a slapshot and hit a streaking Burns in the slot, whose wrister beat Brain Petrovek to the upper left corner...
Dave MacKinnon drove down the left board, wriggled past a defender and passed into the slot. Steve Andrews was waiting and steered the puck into the net for the opening score...
Rigid System. On the ice, the Russians skate as a five-man unit, working the puck into the slot in front of the goal rather than taking low-percentage outside shots. According to Shero, they also "like to overload a zone, throwing four men on one side, gambling that you'll panic and throw the puck away." Shero claims that use of one particular Russian practice technique-skating out of the corner to beat the goalie at close range -gave the Flyers 40 goals last year. Says he: "We won the cup with...
...expand the evening news. But as television audiences-and the cost of advertising-grew, the inevitable drive to improve profits led Paley to increase the number of popular entertainment shows. The distinguished weekly documentary See It Now with Edward R. Murrow, for example, was often shunted from one time slot to another and finally canceled. Paley, says Halberstam, found it too controversial and not profitable enough. In 1972, says Halberstam, Paley intervened in newsroom decision making in a more chilling way. He tried to cancel the second segment of an Evening News report on Watergate, the result of White House...
...product of this arrangement is a hot, even, slow-burning fire; about 30% of the heat generated inside the slot eventually streams out into the room. There is another bonus: it is easy to light. A conventional fire requires a pile of kindling, a few balls of crumpled newspaper and, frequently, several matches before it will catch. Often it burns for half an hour or more before it starts dropping coals and throwing off substantial heat. Because his arrangement traps heat so well, Cranberg can light even damp wood with only a few sheets of newspaper, placed directly...