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...voting on candidates, the clubs follow tradition. Members are handed a basket of black and white balls. To approve a candidate, the member picks out a white ball; the negative action in this type of voting has added an unpleasant word to the vocabulary. Two black balls are usually necessary to keep a candidate out of the club. Candidates sometimes make agreements that they will join only that club which will take their friends. "In voting," one member said, "you must often ask yourself whether it's worth taking two or three people you don't want...
...defensive court, the varsity employed a highly effective floating zone, which forced the Terriers to work outside. B.U. had been found to be most dangerous from close to the basket by Yardling Coach Floyd Wilson, who scouted the Terriers in their victorious 53-50 opener against Clark...
...repeatedly stepped on the court, and picked up two technical fouls before the game ended. On the home team bench, Norm Shepard watched more calmly and could hardly be blamed for having a slightly pleased expressing on his face.DICK MANNING (23) bumps GASTREL RILEY, as he drives toward the basket...
...business to scare the living daylights out of children. As little Hans or Fritz, cowering behind his mother's skirts, diffidently proclaims his virtue, Krampus rattles a huge chain or lashes the air with a switch in menacing disbelief. Sometimes he even comes equipped with a large basket in which to carry off young people whose stories clearly won't wash. However virtuous Junior's conduct during the preceding year may have been, a bout with Krampus usually leaves him shattered but determined to improve...
...lived in the canyon. They turned its widest caves into apartment houses big enough for hundreds of families each, and decorated the walls with mysterious figures such as the rabbits at left. Still farther back in the darkness of the canyon's Stone Age lived the so-called Basket Makers, who had no pottery and no bows & arrows. Like Europe's earliest painters, they pictured their own hands flat against the rock, as if to say simply: "We were here...