Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chances as only fair, even though it is defended by the esteemed Truong and 30,000 to 35,000 troops, including the highly rated 1st Division, three marine brigades, and airborne and ranger units. Opposing them are three Communist divisions and several independent regiments. When TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud visited Hue last week, Communist guns were not far off. Cabled Cloud: "You can hear artillery in the distance, and from time to time the thunder of B-52 strikes rolls through the city to remind people how close the attackers are. The population -200,000 in normal times-has shrunk...
...Boston Bruins figured it, they had no business being in New York. They should have won the Stanley Cup days before-on home ice before home-town fans-but the feisty New York Rangers had engineered a surprising upset. Embarrassed to have to hit the road again before they could wind up the playoffs, the Bruins wasted no time mauling the Rangers for their second National Hockey League championship in three years...
...fists to intimidate the less aggressive Rangers. New York had finished second in the N.H.L.'s dominant eastern division, ten points behind Boston. The way the Rangers trounced Montreal and Chicago to gain the final round gave their fans hope that New York might win its first Stanley Cup in 32 years. But against the Bruins, who had breezed through the regular season with only 13 losses in 78 games, the Rangers skated into a face-off with reality...
...played much of the Stanley Cup series with an injured left knee, but neither he nor the Rangers seemed to notice. On defense, the puck seemed magnetically drawn to his stick. Once, when the Rangers had a man advantage in the fourth game, Orr controlled the puck for 20 seconds, literally skating circles around the frustrated New York attackers. The New York fans, who lived up to their reputation by directing a steady stream of obscenities and litter at the Bruins, could think of no solution for Orr's heroics other than to urge the Rangers...
Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick with James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Orson Welles Cinema, 4, 7, 10, May 21-23. With Walt Disney's Ferdinand the Bull and identity crisis...