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...tension was noticeably high on both teams before the important their game. As John Kiely, the Garden's organist tickled the keys of his Whirling Wurlitzer" in a stepped up tres vito Jerry Lucas, the Knicks center, paced up attention poised Knick bench. This was it. If the Celts lost, they would be down 3-0 facing elimination in New York on Friday...
Inside the small courtroom the security is also tight, but unobtrusive. The area in front of Judge Richard E. Arnason's bench is clogged with tables and people. At one table Prosecutor Albert W. Harris Jr. sits with an assistant. The rest of the limited space is filled by half a dozen deputies with walkie-talkies and a bailiff-all armed with revolvers. In the first rows sit 30 members of the press contingent, which includes correspondents from the Soviet Union and East Germany, where Angela Davis is considered a political prisoner...
During her first days in court, a judge assumed she was a legal secretary; when she stepped up to the bench, he asked where her boss was. Another judge, accustomed to male attorneys, mistook her for a mental patient and started to have her committed before she identified herself. "At least that incident ended with both sides laughing," she says. "Most...
...There is no other word for it. For 15 minutes and 15 seconds, either Harvard or Yale skated shorthanded. Five high-stick penalties were called, including a five-minute major on Yale's Phil Clark for drawing blood. With 2:09 remaining, a scuffle developed that nearly emptied both benches. Only a handful of Eli skaters stayed out of it, and only three Harvard men--Bertagna, Paul and Larry Desmond--remained on the bench, despite Cleary's efforts to restrain his players and thereby avoid five-minute penalties and possible suspensions. It was a disappointing finish to what has normally...
...mistake gave Harvard a commanding lead in the race, and caused mass hysteria on the Harvard bench. The Penn team, defending Ivy and Eastern champions was stunned by their third loss of the season and stood quietly, hoping their last two men could close...