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March 16, 1973
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I.Q. of 145 and A Slow Reader?
A noted publisher in Chicago reports there is a simple technique of rapid reading which should enable you to increase your reading speed and yet retain much more. Most people do not realize how much they could increase their pleasure, success and income by reading faster and more accurately. According to this publisher, many people, regardless of their present reading skill, can use this simple technique to improve their reading ability to a remarkable degree. Whether reading stories, books, technical matter, it becomes possible to read sentences at a glance and entire pages in seconds with this method. To acquaint the readers of this publication with the easy-to-follow rules for developing rapid reading skill, the company, has printed full details of its interesting self-training method in a new booklet, “How to Read…
Oil King Rogers Blossoms Into Hot Scorer
EDMONTON — John Rogers looks in the mirror these days and can’t believe his own eyes. He’s a goal-scorer in the highly-rated Western Canada Hockey League. Rogers, the 19-year-old captain of the Edmonton Oil Kings, couldn’t have hoped for anything more in his draft year of junior hockey. All of a sudden, he has developed into one of the hottest shooters in the West. The fiery forward was better known for his checking ability and hard-nosed approach to the game in his first two WCHL seasons. As a rookie two years ago, he scored 27 goals and added 26 goals as a sophomore last year. There were very few indications that this particular rightwinger would become 50-goal material. But he has proven everyone wrong, including himself, this season. “I never dreamed I’d score 50 goals…
Hockey Ad Lib
The High Point… PAUL HENDERSON SCORED seven goals in the eight games of the Team Canada-Russia series last fall, including the equalizing goal in an early tie, and the game-winners in the last three games, as the National Hockey League All Stars stormed dramatically from behind to defeat the Soviet team. They had surprised and embarrassed them in the first part of the series. The 29-year-old left-winger tallied the tieing goal in the third game of the series, a 4-4 deadlock in Winnipeg, and he almost got the winner when the acrobatic Russian goal-tender Tretiak got to his blast from five feet away in the late stages of the tense, exciting struggle. After winning two of the contests and tying one of the four in Canada, the Russians won the first one in…
Brown Eager For Trade, Showed Before Deal Finalized
PITTSBURGH— Traded players are often in a hurry to get to their new teams, but Andy Brown was so eager, he was there before he was traded. The 29-year-old goaltender appeared at Buffalo’s Statler-Hilton Hotel shortly before noon on the day the Penguins were scheduled to play the Sabres. A few hours later, penguin General Manager-Jack Riley arrived from Pittsburgh and was surprised to learn Brown was with the club. According to Riley, Detroit general manager Ned Harkness had turned down his final offer the night before. While Riley waited for Harkness to make a counter offer. Harkness told Brown to meet the Penguins in Buffalo. When he heard about the situation. Brown tried to say there was no trade. “I don’t belong to the Penguins.” he told a reporter. “I’m just flying black with…
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