Word: canadas
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Indeed, as an athlete, Phills regards himself as something other than a hulking specimen of brute force. Drafted by a junior professional hockey team in Canada when he was sixteen, a former high school football star, a competition-class water skier and a three-year member of Harvard's rugby team, Phills qualifies and an all-around athlete...
Only six years ago, Phills had been playing hockey for both his school and a Montreal city team when the imposition of a rule forced him to drop one of his hockey affiliations. Trying to maintain some school spirit, Phills decided to wrestle for Lower Canada College (LCC). "Wrestling in my high school was for all the rejects from hockey and basketball," Phills recalls. "The guys on the team told me to come out because they needed a heavyweight...
...used to training with Olympic wrestlers in Canada," Phills says. "But here, wrestling is just an extracurricular activity." Not practicing with wrestlers capable of beating him regularly has cost him, adds the Kirkland House resident...
...work. A feat like Least Heat Moon's would be almost inconceivable anywhere else--to travel thousands and thousands of miles, from Nameless, Tenn., to Dime Box, Tex., to Bagley., Mon., to Cape Porpoise. Maine, and never pass outside the U.S. border, except for a small stretch of southern Canada. The faces of small-town America are as varied as their climates and geographies, from the Creoles of Louisiana to the Navajos of Nevada to the Yankees of Vermont. Yet if Blue Highways shows us the wide variation between these people, it makes their similarities even more striking--above...
...computers get more skilled at searching out audiences, new magazines proliferate. There are now about 60,000 periodicals, new and old, published in the U.S. and Canada. Their subjects range from Patchwork Quilts to Gun Talk, not to overlook Dirt Bike magazine. Many of their readers concern themselves with politics only when politics intrudes upon their pet interests. But if their audiences are big or possibly significant enough, politicians come chasing. Playboy, Jimmy Carter decided, appeals to young fellows who do not follow the news closely and would never sit still for involved arguments, but might respond to idealized noises...