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After the "Pandas" upped the margin to 2-0, the "Green Line" of Fischer, Meg Streeter and Tania Huber--who was named yesterday a second team Ivy League all-star--combined to put Harvard finally on the board. A Huber centering pass bounced off Fischer's skate, but Streeter knocked in the loose puck...
...perhaps Bill Cleary's overmatched squad should have quietly skated off the ice right then and taken the next DC-7 to Logan Airport. For four and a half minutes, the Crimson held gamely to a scoreless tie, but then the humiliation began. Aided by linemate and perennial all-star Lance Nethery, sophomore winger Brock Treadway netted two quickies, at 4:23 and 5:56, on the way to his fifth hattrick of the season and second in a row against Harvard. Treadway, who now leads the ECAC with 28 tallies, completed his three-goal performance with 18:28 left...
...Reds since 1936, Giles was named National League president in 1951, after withdrawing from a deadlocked election for baseball commissioner in favor of opponent Ford Frick. During the next 18 years, he watched his league end the dominance of the rival American League by winning 16 out of 22 All-Star games and 10 of 19 World Series. After retirement in 1969, the charming, cherubic baseball executive could still turn crusty when defending the interests of club owners. "It's all wrong," complained Giles in 1978, referring to the steep salaries paid some ballplayers. "Too much money, too much...
Quintet's tedium is in no way relieved by Altman's film-making technique. In place of his usual brio, the director has used pretentious cinematic gimmicks, monochromatic sets and portentous, dissonant music. He reduces an all-star international cast-Newman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson, Brigitte Fossey, David Langton, Vittorio Gassman-to interchangeable (and often indistinguishable) ciphers. He blurs the perimeters of his images with Vaseline. Though two writers assisted Altman on the screenplay, the witless lines amount to paint-by-number existentialism: "Every time you cheat death, you feel the pure thrill of life...
...first NHL all-star game, and where...