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Harvard's lacrosse team poured in goals at the rate of one every three minutes yesterday, clobbering a spiritless M.I.T. squad 18-1 in the Crimson's home opener...
...last week, Cazzie Russell was still trying to live up to his promise with the Knicks. And the Pistons' Dave Bing? Last year, in his first season, he averaged 20 points per game for a spiritless, last-place club and ran away with Rookie-of-the-Year honors. This year he leads the entire N.B.A. with 1,371 points in 50 games for a 27.4 average. Almost singlehanded he has pushed the Pistons into third place in the Eastern Division behind the Philadelphia 76ers and Boston Celtics...
...proved with the Flint films, Coburn can cut a wide peel from some mighty small potatoes. But this enterprise makes him seem less a star than a character actor who needs smaller roles in order to regain his comic stature. In part, the blame may lie with a bland, spiritless script that fancies itself original in lampooning western cliches, yet has the temerity to steal Jack Benny's most famous joke: "Your money or your life." Pause. "Well?" "I'm thinking." Theft and rape may sometimes be forgivable; plagiarism never...
...raising campaign, and provided his largely inexperienced slate of legislative candidates with local organizational support and professional opinion-sampling services. The polls reported that the voters were unhappy about crime, taxes and Lyndon Johnson; Republican candidates denounced all three in energetic unison. The Democrats, by contrast, were leaderless and spiritless...
...second period was 20 minutes of sloppy, spiritless hockey punctuated only by a fluke goal awarded to B.U.'s Pete McLachlan at 18:15. Fitzsimmons and Crimson defenseman Don Grimble both dived to cover the Terrier co-captain's shot, but they only succeeded in knocking the puck over the goal line...