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Last year, Princeton coach Bill Farley staged a twelve-minute stall between the 1000 and 200 in order to give Loughran time to rest. Loughran then went out and defeated Yntema at that distance. This year Farley instructed freshman Bruce Peterson to take a leisurely swim in the 1000 (he finished three minutes behind everyone else), but couldn't find a way to stall the meet any further...
Clarkson said that she had begun wearing her fur-coat to bed and, in an interview yesterday, Bossert described finding ice in a shower stall...
...another show of independence, the Yugoslav Communists have joined with the renegade parties of Rumania and Italy to try to stall or even prevent Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's grand scheme for a European Communist Party Conference (TIME, Dec. 8). The Yugoslavs are also quietly exploring the possibility of buying fighter planes and radar and anti-aircraft defense systems from the U.S., in order to make Yugoslavia less dependent on the U.S.S.R. for maintenance of its Soviet-manufactured arsenal...
...left-wing academic community lacks teeth, and too many plot turns seem to occur in the last third of the novel, sim ply because something has to happen. One touch, however, indicates the book's essential virtue. Yuri Maximovich is trying to decide whether to defect. To stall for time, he must sell out and read the KGB's poem. He does so. But first, more artist than survivor, he takes the wretched thing apart and sharpens its images. It is not clear whether he understands that as a secret message it is now worth less...
Harvard came storming back in the last five minutes of the game. Fordham went into its stall offense, and the Crimson responded by scoring eight straight points. Fordham missed a succession of key free throws, and with only 2:29 remaining, Banks converted two free throws to give Harvard a 66-64 lead...