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With Wood falling asleep in the nets for Harvard in the third period, Coach Cooney Weiland sent in second string backstop Chris Steedman at 13:00 who made one nice save. Wood had 14 stops, and Colby's Sawier...

Author: By Efrem Sigel, | Title: Flourish of Three Second Period Scores Swamps Sluggish White Mule Sextet, 7-1 | 12/6/1962 | See Source »

...Princeton star Van Gerbig played a spectancular game, making 40 saves for St. Nick's, who stretched their undefeated streak to seven games. Crimson backstop Wood had to stop 18 shots...

Author: By Ronald I. Cohen, | Title: St. Nick's Downs Hockey Varsity | 12/3/1962 | See Source »

First-string backstop Godfrey Wood came up with 17 saves in two periods for the Crimson, and substitute goalie Brandon Sweitzer turned away seven shots in the final period. J.V. netminder Steedman stopped 38 drives for the alumni...

Author: By Ronald I. Cohen, | Title: Crimson Sextet Meets Undefeated St. Nicholas Hockey Club Tonight | 12/1/1962 | See Source »

...than 98% use it. Only rich and conservative holdouts rely exclusively on private care. But a growing number of Britons, 1,200,000 now as against 100,000 when NHS began, now have some private medical care as well. Some use this as a status symbol; others as a backstop to NHS, to get quicker care and more quiet and privacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Care in Britain | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...Atomic Backstop. But of all the U.S. Army troops, the men most under the Communist gun are those of the Seventh Army in Germany. NATO Supreme Allied Commander Lauris Norstad calls the Seventh "the best-equipped, best-led and best-trained Army the U.S. has ever fielded in peacetime." Says Seventh Army Commander Gar Davidson: "I'm confident we can handle whatever the So viets throw at us, and you can be damned sure there'll be a lot less Russians around if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: This Is the Army | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

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