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...they could do just to finish fourth in the six-team National Hockey League. Their goalie, Terry Sawchuk, had 1) a pinched nerve, 2) a sick wife, 3) six kids and 4) a $100,000 liability suit over an automobile accident to contend with. And their star, Wingman Gordie Howe, was obviously slowing down. He would never see 35 again, and in 14 games against Toronto this season, he had not scored a single goal...
...hand grenade in each hand. A burst of gunfire from the choppers cut him down; both grenades exploded beneath his body. From the door of a grass hut, a guerrilla blazed away at a hovering Huey, missed its copilot by only a few inches. The Huey's wingman planted a rocket smack in the doorway of the hut and blew it to pieces...
...immediately called the ground fire to the attention of my wingman. Almost at the same instant he also was informing me. This was the first break of radio silence since we departed MacDill...
...juice from an emergency electrical generator to rouse his radio, kept his aircraft from nosing over into supersonic speed. But only for an instant; a hundred battle missions and a bail-out in enemy fire over Korea had honed his survival instincts, and Rankin knew the choice. To his wingman, Lieut. Herbert Nolan, he snapped a message over his faltering transmitter: "Power failure. May have to eject." To himself he said: "This is going to be a pretty high...
Even in a game's quiet moments the din at the Forum is incessant. But the normal noise level increases to a rafter-raising roar when an aging, sharp-featured wingman with deep-set flashing jet-black eyes and a mop of black hair cuddles the puck to his stick, nurses it past enemy defenders, skillfully fakes the goalie out of position and flicks the rubber disk into the cage. Shouts of "Rocket, Rocket" fill the air in delirious tribute to Joseph Henri Maurice Richard, the greatest player in modern hockey history...