Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barnaby, wary of the fact that his three toughest matches--Navy, Penn, and Princeton--were all away, had insisted on using a different type ball from the one Harvard had to use against Navy the day beforehand, when Peter Abrams' chronic back ailments sidelined him the day before the big match. These factors, coupled with the fact that Penn had one of its most powerful squads in years, resulted in Harvard's first loss to the Quakers...
Chris Gallagher dropped in a lay-up three seconds from the end, but the clock ran out with the ball rolling on the floor...
...highest scorers in the na tion in his junior year at Loyola Uni versity in Chicago, was drafted by the home-town Bulls last year to play in the National Basketball Association. But when the Bulls failed to offer a contract to his liking, Tillman decided to forgo pro ball for a season...
Other American players, accustomed to the slick, fast-breaking style of play in the U.S., return home out of frustration; while improving, European basketball at best is on a level with junior-college ball in the U.S. Playing conditions, like the cramped court on the third floor of the Abbey of Mercy church in Venice, are often less than ideal. Refereeing, which one U.S. player says favors the home team by a good 25 points, is woefully bad. And the European players, to whom teamwork is a job performed by oxen, would just as soon uncork an impossibly long...
Tight Corset. As Robert Ball, TIME'S European economic correspondent, reports: "The root of last fall's crisis, the fundamental imbalance between the robust West German mark and the weak French franc, has not been lastingly removed. The tight corset of exchange controls is all that is holding the franc up. Though the controls have impeded any further outflow of francs from France, Paris has failed to lure back the bulk of hot money that it had previously lost. In Europe, the skepticism about France's chances of avoiding devaluation is widespread...