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...stick helps them to scoop the puck off the boards and, by cradling it inside the curve, shield it from the goalie's vision. This new-found control, which is roughly similar to that afforded by the lacrosse stick or the jai-alai cesta, has worked wonders for such so-so scorers as Ranger Vic Hadfield, who has already scored more goals this season than he has in seven previous seasons in the N.H.L...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hockey: Day of the Banana Stick | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Hello, Cyril? This is your roommate Bonn. I have the most divine news. I mean, divine. You remember Modesty Blaisel And The Day the Fish Came Out? Well, now there's a raving new one called The Touchables, and it is absolutely not to be believed it's so-so, well, divine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Not to Be Believed | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...stickers pleading, HELP STROM, ELECT NIXON. But conservative South Carolinians are not inclined to help Strom, and Wallace is now ahead. In Florida, a vague desire to register a protest against both major parties has erased Nixon's earlier lead. His final campaign rally in Miami drew only a so-so crowd last week, and Nixon admitted that the state is "even, insofar as we are concerned and the third-party candidate." Humphrey runs a distant third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where They Are with Three Weeks to Go | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Back trouble and a proclivity for serving up home-run balls kept Denny a so-so pitcher for the next two years. Then, in mid-June of 1965, he was called in from the bullpen to relieve against the Boston Red Sox. McLain suddenly found what he calls "my rhythm, my groove." He struck out seven straight hitters to tie an American League record. He went on to win eight games in a row, and wound up the year with a mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Tiger Untamed | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...kill off a troublesome ally, and of provoking air raids on Britain so that he could retaliate with mass bombings on German cities (TIME, May 10). Now Author Thompson, a British journalist turned war historian, says that Churchill, to save his own skin, fashioned a hero out of a so-so soldier named Bernard Law Montgomery. This will be news to those who have always felt that Field Marshal Montgomery alone was responsible for that singular achievement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winnie as Villain | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

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