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...Brown didn't play their normal sock-'em-up, excessively physical ball game," Getchell said. "Instead they worked for short passes and ball control. They showed more finesse against Bridgeport than I've ever seen from them," he said...
...seems to me that King broke with whatever compromise he might have made when he jumped into the Vietnam war protest, determined to sock it to those who would have restrained him. And when he made his decision, he must have known that his life, although he had been threatened time and time again, was now measured...
Aspiring rejasers can find ample tips in books like Joan Ranson Shortney's How to Live on Nothing (Pocket Books; 95?), which includes a 100-item check list for transforming everyday discards. A light bulb, for instance, makes a handy sock-darning egg. With blackboard paint, an old window shade becomes a roll-up chalkboard for children. By nailing upturned bottle caps to a board, the kids can make a front-door footscraper. These days, rejasers even dump junked cars neatly offshore: the hulks act like coral reefs, attracting fish-and fishermen...
WORCHESTER (UPI)-Craig Jones had seen some pretty wierd things in his lifetime. Craig particularly remembered the time he had worn a black sock and a blue sock to school in Miss Finch's Grade 4-B class. "Geez, was I embarrassed," Craig recalled...
Burrows, 44, had covered conflicts across the world-in Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, Cyprus and the Congo. But the lanky, gentle-mannered Englishman had very personal feelings about Viet Nam. "Be it exotic meetings with Madame Nhu, or sleeping on a stretcher on a Vietnamese patrol, or sharing a sock of rice with the Special Forces, this strange war fascinates me," he said. He could be diverted, but not for long. As LIFE Managing Editor Ralph Graves put it: "He spent nine years covering this war under conditions of incredible danger. We kept thinking up other, safe stories...