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When the Rangers opened the second game by scoring two goals against Dryden in less than seven minutes, the impossible seemed possible. Then the Canadiens found the miracle wrecker in Left Wing Bob Gainey. Gainey is the stuff of dynasties as surely as are Lafleur, Jean Beliveau and Maurice ("Rocket") Richard from earlier teams, an example of the depth of talent that Montreal assembles to support its stars. In six N.H.L. seasons, Gainey, 25, has averaged fewer than 15 goals a year, concentrating instead on the less dramatic, but equally vital skills of a defensive forward...
...foot bronze of Joseph Stalin erected on the site of the razed Regnum Marianum Church. With ladders, cables and acetylene torches, a group of workers cut through the metal knees and brought the old dictator crashing to the street. Hungarians hammered at the huge metal corpse. Said one wrecker: "I want a souvenir of this old bastard...
...meet, and as Leo Durocher would have it, his Princeton club usually finished with the rest of the nice guys. First-year mentor Frank Navarro has luckily inherited nine starters on both offense and defense in what has to be Princeton's most top-heavy squad since 1969. Harvard-wrecker Bobby Isom, who romped for 209 yards against the Crimson last November, is mercifully gone, as is defensive end Bill Mitchell. But that, my friends...
...nine states where he has a substantial following among liberal Democrats and independents-Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, Oregon, Michigan, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and California. That strategy looks as if it is designed to maximize the damage to Carter, and McCarthy seems almost to relish the role of wrecker. He says almost gleefully to applauding audiences: "I've been accused of being a spoiler. Well, how can you spoil this election when there's nothing to spoil...
...Indianapolis Speedway, wrecker trucks are RWB; so are many Illinois state police cars, garbage trucks in Boston, fire hydrants, buses and subway cars in Chicago, and Braniff s flagship airliner...