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Reffing is a joint effort hinging on a subtle choreography between partners. One official is always stationed on the baseline policing underneath while the other scours the action on the perimeter. The two switch positions after every foul call...

Author: By Robert I. W. sidorsky, | Title: Traffic Cops In Bloody-Nose Alley It's a long, hard climb from the snakepits to the ECAC big time. | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...UNDERNEATH THIS aura of impressive, slightly clumsy knowledgeability about banks and bankers, the Moneychangers is quite a simple moral tale. Its characters are for the most part either good or bad, so it is easy to tell, by observing what they do and think, where Hailey's sympathies lie--and if these associations alone don't sketch out an ideology, the action of the novel certainly does. Alex Vandervoort, the hero, is liberal; he lives with an intelligent woman lawyer, tries to have the bank help people in the ghetto, and is scrupulously honest. The villain, Roscoe Heyward, fluctuates wildly...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: The Great American Novelist | 3/10/1976 | See Source »

...With all our big men in foul trouble, we were handicapped underneath," Carey said yesterday. "We had to lay off of them on defense and they ran right away from...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Bruins Maul Cagers, 101-86; Crimson Finishes 8-18 Season | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

DETONATE A BOMB in the middle of a conversation, Alfred Hitchcock observed to an interviewer, and you will make the audience jump. But let them know that there is a bomb underneath the table over which two people are having a normal conversation and you can have your audience on the edge of their seats for as long as you like...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Burnt Out at the Bellmore | 3/5/1976 | See Source »

Todd Hooks then stole the ball from Mitchell and fed Kallaugher on the fly who passed it to Healey underneath for the basket. Kallaugher followed this up by stealing the ensuing inbound pass and laying it in to cut the UMass lead to four...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: UMass-Boston Outdistances Classics, 72-54; Bergen, Healy Amass 33 in Losing Effort | 3/5/1976 | See Source »

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