Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When his Boston Celtics are on the basketball floor, Coach Arnold ("Red") Auerbach, 45, sits hunched forward on the bench as if it were the edge of a razor blade, his face flickering between anguish and rage. He once punched a heckling rival club owner in the mouth, has nearly come to blows with innumerable referees, and by his own reckoning pays something like $400 a season in fines for arguing too much. But if no one has ever accused Auerbach of being a popular coach, no one questions his success. In twelve years under Auerbach, the Celtics have never...
...Arnold Arboretum, a vast Harvard-administered horticultural garden in Jamaica Plain off Route 1, may be partially destroyed if the city of Boston persists in its plans to build a 30 acre consolidated high school in the area, the CRIMSON learned yesterday...
...history bulged with facts and figures and so many quotes that he often seems not to be writing at all but excerpting. Yet Namier revolutionized the writing of history and became in the eyes of his British colleagues the greatest historian of the century. "I worshiped him," said Arnold Toynbee, whose own history is the exact opposite of Namier's. "He was a big man with a big mind...
...dedicated Sunday golfer is a testament to hope. He falls over backward on the tee because Gary Player does. He cuts his ball nearly in half, trying to make it back up on the green just like Arnold Palmer. He crouches like Jack Nicklaus and peers curiously into the cup-looking for goodness knows what. When he smothers a drive, it is a "controlled hook," and when he shanks an approach, he is "opening up the green." He talks cunningly of "snakes" and "beaches" and "froghair,"* and he coyly buys hole-in-one insurance to pay for the party...
...would have tied him with Billy Casper for the $5,300 top prize. But then his touch left him. He missed the 25-footer, blew his second putt, finally settled for seventh money of $1,400, behind Casper and five other players. Even then he did better than Arnold Palmer, who wound up shooting a 293, was later disqualified for playing a provisional ball illegally in the third round...