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Even after passing the Rocket, Howe still acted like the most modest rookie on the club. But many an expert regards Howe as the world's finest hockey player. Square and solid (6 ft., 201 lbs.), Howe has a pair of thick, supple wrists that can snap one of the fastest shots in the game (120 m.p.h.). What is more, he is a deft playmaker who is so tough he often takes extra turns with Detroit's spare lines, so rugged a body checker that he sometimes substitutes for a defenseman and comes zooming up ice to give...
...eighth Australian cattle dog, and the remainder Redbone or Walker hound. Explains Hulet: "Thoroughbred hounds don't have the courage that crosses do. The pit bull in 'em makes 'em vicious and tenacious. The cattle dog in 'em gives 'em enough sense to snap and get out of the way. You ought to have spotted coats, too. Bears are so nearsighted they can see a spotted dog better, and that will make them quicker to tree or turn to fight...
...hearing was the movie theater of a Cuban army base, where the piano was shoved aside to make room for the bench. Five uniformed judges sat at a table while guards with machine guns watched spectators munching sandwiches and sipping soft drinks. At times the presiding judge would snap his fingers and send a boy off for coffee. After a two-hour trial and 20 minutes of deliberation, the court produced a four-page typewritten verdict of guilty. The sentence: 14 years at hard labor, suspended on condition that Buchanan get out of Cuba in 24 hours...
...White. No fewer than five times it ran itself aground at Provincetown, virtually on Dr. White's Boston doorstep (though he was in Washington). Four times the U.S. Coast Guard hitched a 3-in. hawser to it and towed it out to sea, only to have it snap the line and return with a derisive spout. Fifth time, an observer phoned the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 60 miles away. There Dr. John W. Kanwisher put in a hurried call to Dr. White, then drove to Provincetown, where he had to spend the night on the beach, waiting...
...practice run at Aspen, Colo., young (23) Buddy Werner, the U.S.'s best skier, crossed his skis, breaking his leg and the hearts of U.S. ski enthusiasts, who had counted on him to snap Europe's long dominance of the sport, take the U.S.'s first-ever gold medal in the men's events at the 1960 Winter Olympics, scheduled for Squaw Valley, Calif, this February...