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...decisive fifth game, Nayar was down four straight match points at 11-14. At 14-14 Burke hit a smash that just nicked the tin, and Nayar followed with a tremendous three-wall kick for the victory...
...permissiveness." Black, who celebrated his 83rd birthday last week, claimed that the demonstration had diverted the pupils' minds from school work. The decision was untimely, said Black, because "groups of students all over the land are already running loose, conducting break-ins, sit-ins, lie-ins and smash...
Died. John Boles, 73, robust baritone who became one of the first matinee idols of the talkies when his booming voice reverberated across the dunes in The Desert Song (1929), later starred in the Broadway musical smash One Touch of Venus (1943); of a heart attack; in San Angelo, Texas...
...stuff the coin chute with thin pieces of paper and after several would-be callers have dropped in their coins, retrieve the money. Last year one thief admitted that he habitually got into 20 to 30 pay phones a day and earned $20,000 annually. Less sophisticated professionals often smash the telephones or rip them out and carry them away. Plain spiteful vandalism also accounts for an increasing number of broken phones. Teen-agers rip out wires or steal receivers and dials just for perverse fun or an adolescent sign of protest. Some psychologists see similarities between the wrecking...
...sang Danny Boy in a round, waddling contralto. Said she: "I only sing classical." The Spoonies, two stubble-chinned men in their 60s named Scottie and Georgie, clattered through Waltzing Matilda, one whacking a banjo, the other clicking two bent dessert spoons like castanets. The evening was a smash success. "After all," says Partridge, "if they weren't any good, they wouldn't be buskers. Bad buskers starve...