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...however, when the sport made its first foray north with the opening of two jai alai frontons, or arenas, in Connecticut, bettors have learned to say hi-lie quite properly-and, for the state, very profitably. Nearly $1 million a day pours through the betting windows at Hartford and Bridgeport from capacity crowds newly hooked on the world's fastest game and the fast buck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jai Alai Moves North | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...large part, language study is thriving at Dartmouth because of the ebullient personality and unique teaching method of John Rassias, professor of Romance languages and literature. A University of Bridgeport graduate, Rassias, 50, first developed his system when he went to Dartmouth in 1965 to teach a crash course for Peace Corps volunteers heading for French-speaking areas of West Africa. Staying on to teach Dartmouth undergraduates, Rassias used his crash method for both French and Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dynamiting Language | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...driving circumstances, and past Washington there is another. At first there are a lot of tolls and cities and tricky interchanges, and you have to be on your toes. From here to New York, it's all pretty familiar: Mass Pike, through the middle of Connecticut, New Haven, Bridgeport, the Bronx. Northern Connecticut is the prettiest part; the Connecticut coast is old and industrial. Outside of New York City you pass what must be the world's biggest cemetery and a White Castle where they sell silver-dollar-size hamburgers for fifteen cents each. The traffic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISCELLANY | 12/18/1975 | See Source »

...Bridgeport is ranked third, followed by Vermont, and Babson and Springfield (6-3) who tie for fifth. Harvard fell off the twenty-team list this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Clinches House Football Title | 11/7/1975 | See Source »

...team. We should have won some of our games." The score was tied at one-all in the game against Bates until the last five minutes. Possessing the ball 95 per cent of the time and firing nine shots on goal the 'Cliffe could not penetrate the Bridgeport net. Field said that the score could have easily gone either way in the Worcester State game as Maude Wood scored a third goal on a penalty flick near the end of the game. It was called back, however, because she committed sticks...

Author: By Ann M. Koufman, | Title: Linsley, Wood Named All-Stars But 'Cliffe Drops Two Games | 11/4/1975 | See Source »

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