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Blair is streaking, as the Elis found out Saturday. The sophomore stopped 25 shots, many of them point blank, four of them in quick succession on a Yale breakaway just 5:15 into the game.

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Icemen Score Practical Win By Tying Second-Place Yale | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

Andropov's lingering illness, it was thought, had given his comrades in the Politburo ample time to plan for the succession. But at week's end the transition did not appear to be proceeding as smoothly or swiftly as it did following Brezhnev's death. Then it had taken only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a Shadow Regime | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

The succession is certain to sharpen debate within the Reagan Administration on how to deal with the Soviets. Some State Department officials tend to see the change in leadership as an opportunity to improve U.S.-Soviet relations by substantially modifying the U.S. START proposal to bring it closer to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a Shadow Regime | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

After 13 movies in five years in which she played a succession of teenyboppers, Diane Lane, 19, has graduated. For her next role in Streets of Fire, a film that is being billed as a "rock-'n'-roll fantasy," Lane portrays an adult singer who is kidnaped by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 20, 1984 | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

ABC reporters and executives steeled themselves to cover the Olympics by taking practice runs down precipitous worst-case scenarios, but they could hardly have expected the succession of misfortunes-natural, mechanical and even political-that befell the network during the Games' opening week. Said Jim McKay: "You know the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ready to Go, but Little to Show | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

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