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...rivals had swapped baskets three times after the opening tip-off, when Sanders's squad exploded for 11 straight points to go up, 17-6, in the first five minutes of the game. Scoring mostly on wide-open layups after breaking Yale's full-court man-to-man press, the Crimson continued to race away from the hapless Elis, and went up, 38-19, with 1:24 remaining in the first half...
...Ignorance: See No Evil, See No Good, See Nothing. By once again posing that time-eroded question--who lost China?--Kubek has oversimplified the true picture and, in the McCarthyite manner, painted portraits, portraits of heroes and villains, portraits in which all (and this, of course, is the tip-off) the subjects are Americans. Somehow hundreds of millions of Chinese are forgotten...
...With others, the two soldiers formed the nucleus of what became the Free Officers' Committee, which eventually ousted King Farouk in 1952. For all his antimonarchical zeal, Sadat almost missed the coup. On the night that it was scheduled to take place, Sadat somehow failed to receive his tip-off message and spent the evening at the movies. By the time he found out what was happening, Farouk's headquarters in Cairo had already fallen. Nonetheless, Sadat was selected to announce the overthrow on Cairo radio...
...first tip-off to the latest economic intriguing came from Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns, who remarked casually before the House Banking and Currency Committee that Nixon had shown "considerable sympathy for raising taxes." That was the first anyone had heard of such feelings, but economic analysts quickly noted that Burns might have his own reasons for divining them. In trying to keep the nation's highly charged economy from spinning out of control, Burns has been forced to engineer a cost-of-credit squeeze of historic proportions; last week some banks raised their prime lending rate...
...decision was all but final when Kissinger flew to Camp David Sunday morning, got the drift from Nixon, and returned to hold a meeting of his Washington Special Action Group to discuss contingency plans for the mining. The first public tip-off of an impending crisis came when Nixon summoned Rogers home to Washington...