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Perhaps the tipoff came in the third period. A small rabbit ran across the field. A dog took chase and seemed to have the small creature in its mouth when the rabbit ran off again and the dog couldn't catch...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 5/6/1969 | See Source »

...more like it. By game time, the odds makers had installed U.C.L.A. as an eight-point fa vorite on the strength of a tougher schedule and no losses since the Houston upset. But no one remotely expect ed anything like the slaughter that followed. Attacking from the first tipoff, Coach John Wooden's Bruins outran, outpassed, outshot, and outrebounded the Cougars. Final score: U.C.L.A. 101, Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Basketball: Champions Again | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

Tasteless Tipoff. Dysautonomia was not recognized as a separate disease entity until 1949, when Dr. Conrad M. Riley described several New York City victims and it was hard to distinguish from other inherited defects. Then, at New York University Medical Center, Dr. Joseph Dancis and Dr. Alfred Smith found that dysautonomia had one unique feature: its victims lacked taste buds in the front and, in most cases, in the back of the tongue as well. This defect in taste buds signals defects in other parts of the nervous system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetics: Ashkenazic Inheritance | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...reader may be unsure which magazine to believe. But there is one reliable tipoff. Perspectives admits that the U.S. has made many mistakes in Viet Nam; Viet-Report will not concede a single U.S. success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Views of Viet Nam | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...point, a juror gave the accused a broad wink. It was a good tipoff. After 1 hr. 29 min. of deliberation, the jury reached its verdict: "Not guilty." Not that anyone had expected differently in "bloody Lowndes," as Negroes call the county. Nonetheless, Attorney General Flowers, a courageous, outspoken antisegregationist whose own life was threatened during the trial, denounced the verdict as an outrage. Said he: "Now those who feel they have a license to kill, maim and destroy have been issued that license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: A License to Kill | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

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