Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...award, going to the collegiate cage team in the nation with the most courteous manners on the hardwood, will be presented to the Crimson April 6 in New York. Sanders will not be present to pick up the trophy, however, because he will announce a Celtics playoff game in Buffalo that night for a local TV station, he said...
...fact that a number of antigovernment terrorists had been arrested near Paris last December, were convinced that "an explosion" had occurred. Investigators from the U.S., France and Britain, however, were struck by similarities to an American Airlines DC-10 mishap in June 1972. That plane, en route from Buffalo to Detroit, suffered major damage when a cargo hatch blew off at 11,750 ft. The resulting rapid decompression buckled the cabin floor, thus disrupting control cables. The crew was able to land the plane at Detroit with only a few minor injuries...
Formal Protest. The next event produced the high point of the low comedy. At the end of the second lap in the four-lap bicycle race, Buffalo Brave Forward Jim McMillian swung out too far on a turn and clipped Anderson's back tire. McMillian went sprawling onto the track (he was only slightly injured). The chain fell off Anderson's bike, forcing him to retire. Miffed, Anderson marched off to lodge a formal protest that was quickly disallowed...
Died. Miles Gilbert ("Tim") Horton, 44, defense star with the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League; when his sports car crashed near...
...future, N.I.O.C. is contracting to sell up to 100,000 bbl. a day for 15 years to Ashland Oil Co. in return for a half interest in 180 service stations in New York State (which will sell gasoline under the Ashland-N.I.O.C. brand name) and a refinery in Buffalo...