Flashback Friday: Sad Bills, oil spills and Reds on the run
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It was quite the week in sports.
"Resigned to accept their fate, the Bills offered but scant resistance," wrote The News'
"And so, history will make a record of the Bills, but not as the best team in the league over the past four years -- which they surely are -- but as the lone occupant in the nook reserved for quadruple losers. It's kind of sad for the Bills, but it could be worse.
"Just ask
Meanwhile, college football teams added to their rosters on National Signing Day. Included were
And in baseball, the
50 Years
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The leaking of oil off the coast of
"The penetrating smell of crude oil seems to be everywhere," the
"That was a capsule picture today as a runaway undersea well six miles off the
"Crews trying to check the flow had to abandon the drilling platform for a time Wednesday after natural gas fumes bubbled to the source along with the oil. And about 60 persons living on some of the 700 boats in the harbor here were evacuated because of noxious fumes and the danger of fire."
On a lighter note, The News editors joked:
"Turn the other cheek and you'll nick yourself with the razor again."
"Work has no effect on the length of life, science finds. Perhaps to the man who works, life only seems longer."
"Some people laugh at ghost stories, but they also do most of their reading in the daytime."
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The News continued its habit of relaying the hottest European postwar and various civil war news briefs.
According to a dispatch from the Russian city of Archangel, "Heavy losses were inflicted on the Bolsheviki forces by American troops Tuesday and the enemy lost many killed and wounded while scores of prisoners were taken.
"The Bolsheviki fled to great disorder over the territory reaching from Vistavka on to Vala and left many dead behind. The American casualties were five dead and a number wounded."
Days later, "The British and Russian troops, supported by the American machine gun and trench mortar units, began an attack on the Bolsheviki this morning in the
"The Bolsheviki is shelling the American position in the Vaga sector continuously."
Battles also continued across
"Government troops entered
On
Good news between the Poles and the Czechs, however.
"An armistice between the Polish and the Czech-Slovak forces, which have been fighting in the Silesian front, was signed February third, according to advices received today," per a report from
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