Word: amateurs
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...from Kansas City, or for that metter, anyplace but an East Coast private school, odds are you've never even heard of squash. Canadian junior Mike Desaulniers has definitely heard of squash--in fact, he's the number one amateur in North America--and how many pro squash players do you know...
Besides providing transportation and pleasant outings, roller skating is rapidly becoming a recognized sport. The U.S. Amateur Confederation of Roller Skating lists 12,000 speed skaters, 17,000 artistic skaters and 3,000 hockey skaters, with club membership up by a third in the past two years. National teams of all three kinds of skaters will compete in next year's prestigious Pan-American Games, and skaters are hoping to be included in the 1988 Olympics...
DIED. Victor Hasselblad, 72, Swedish inventor of the Hasselblad camera; of cancer; in Gothenburg, Sweden. Born into a family of devoted amateur photography addicts, Hasselblad dreamed of developing his own camera and got a chance to do so for the Swedish air force in World War II. Then in 1948 he introduced the world's first 2¼-in. by 2¼-in. single-lens reflex camera with interchangeable lenses and magazines. It quickly became a favorite of professional photographers, earning a reputation as the Rolls-Royce of its field, and later was adopted by NASA...
Thanks to some fine performances, this is an interesting, if obviously amateur, evening of theater. The cast does try very hard and its short-comings are due to inexperience rather than incompetence. Red Ryder would not be worth seeing for $3.50, but at the usual Ex ticket price--free--you might want to check...
...hill, the 40-mile-long multicolored ribbon, snaking through the Iowa cornfields, looks like the ultimate outdoor crazy sculpture. At hub and t-shirt level it turns out to be the American version of the Tour de France-sans hype, heartbreak, commercials, competition or prizes. It is the annual amateur week-long bicycle marathon from the Missouri to the Mississippi, as amiable a happening as any to be found...