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Despite the lack of support, Bruin goalie Jim Madich has performed commendably, turning away 345 shots while allowing 50 goals in 13 appearances this season. The junior netminder will probably have a busy night trying to thwart a Crimson attack, led by Randy Roth and captain Bob Goodenow...
...remembered debating with junior White House staff members about the President's policy on race. The thrust of the discussion was how they could thwart integration. He was against the whole idea. Finally he blurted, "It's not right." There was, he recalled, silent disdain for such an irrelevancy...
...Hairy Star." According to some biblical interpretations, a bright comet appeared over Judea around 7 B.C. shortly before the birth of Jesus. Oracles told King Herod that the "hairy star" was the harbinger of the birth of a boy who was destined to outshine the monarch himself. To thwart that threat to his supremacy, Herod went on a rampage of infanticide. In A.D. 451 a comet blazed overhead as Attila the Hun overran Gaul on a march that culminated in the invasion of Italy. A comet, depicted in the famous Bayeux tapestry, also appeared...
...tumbledown farm deep in the English countryside. Her husband is a P.O.W. in Japan, so she takes a lover, a young soldier (Brian Deacon) who so enjoys her company and so dislikes the army that he deserts. To explain his presence to the curious townspeople, and to thwart suspicion in general, Jackson dresses her lover up as her sister and has him doing the chores in drag. He resists at first, but then comes to like it a little, enough to accept a Christmas-dance date with a loudmouthed sergeant (Oliver Reed...
...resisting the U.S. military has encouraged other Third World peoples and given birth to an anti-imperialist movement within this country. Disheartening events like the overthrow of the Allende government are certainly great defeats, but they are not permanent. The United States cannot continue to twist the lives, thwart the aspirations and deny the humanity of the majority of the people--brothers and sisters--who share this planet with...