Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale quarterback Brian Dowling threw a career-high three touchdown passes last week--leading his team to a 25-13 victory over Cornell--and needs only five more this year to surpass the Yale record of 15 TD passes in a year. Three Yale receivers have each caught three touch-down passes, and end Nick Davidson four...
...Spitz, who had been favored to win as many as five gold medals, managed only two-both in relays-and finished dead last in his specialty, the 200-meter butterfly. Pennsylvania's Carl Robie did his job for him, beating Britain's Martyn Wood-roffe to the touch board by two yards...
...sake of the unborn, the plan is not to vaccinate women.* Instead, public health officials hope to stamp out rubella by vaccinating children; thus, as they put it, "drying up the reservoir" of susceptible subjects who spread the infection. Some time in their lives, most adults have had a touch of rubella with no ill effects, and are now immune...
...Boston Strangler should have been as fascinating to view as it was to read, but the film is afflicted with its own kind of split personality. Early on, Director Richard Fleischer opts for the comic touch, in the style of No Way to Treat a Lady. A parade of men's room queens, peepers and certified nuts pass in review, and the film mocks them all. But after it has squeezed its last smirks from a lisping fetishist who makes love to women's handbags, the movie abruptly shifts direction. The downhill half is a quasi-documentary, reminiscent...
Courageous, only occasionally embarrassing, They communicates best the troubling reflections of a liberal generation that worked for change and revolution only to find the results horrifying. We were caught, one character observes, "between the Puritan and the pornographer." Calculated to attract the young, the book will most touch the middleaged. Better read than talked about, it will no doubt be more talked about than read...