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Harvard, a late-rally team all year long, put merciless pressure on Healey at the start of the final period, but the sophomore goaltender locked the Crimson out. Then, when Erickson stretched the Larrie lead to 5-1 by firing a carom over Diercks' shoulder at 7:13, the game was as good as over...
...junior goalie had no chance on the 10-foot backhander when a Crimson defenseman couldn't clear a hard carom off the boards. But the goal was reminiscent of Dierck's last three games, when the opposition also scored on its first shot on the way to a total of 22 goals...
...Niederhoffer's manners last week were practically impeccable-and so was his game. In the semifinals, he beat Sam Howe's brother, Ralph, with a dazzling display of drop shots, "nicks" (shots which hit right at the floor line, roll out with no bounce) and "boasts" which carom sharply from a side wall to the front wall, then drop dead off the other side...
...last week's championship, a crowd of 700 jammed the Windsor Ballroom, and ABC-TV was on hand to catch every clicking carom. The prize money was $13,000. Nobody was taking it lightly, least of all an ex-butcher from Minersville, Pa., named Joe Balsis. "My wife and kids have a nasty habit," said Balsis, 42. "They...
High Relay. Last week was the first time that a satisfactory TV picture ever crossed an ocean. TV signals contain so much information that they cannot be carried by submarine cables or by radio waves that carom around the globe bouncing back and forth under the ionized layers of the upper atmosphere. They must travel on microwaves, which follow paths as straight as beams of light; getting them past the curve of the earth requires a relay station high enough so that it shows above the horizon from both shores. Telstar served this purpose for a historic few minutes last...