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...system or unstrategically overordered and have landed them selves in the ticket-brokering business on a big scale. A brisk market also developed in team pins, something of an Olympic tradition. "It's not like just a football game or something," said Cathy Fresh water, a supermarket checker and souvenir canvasser. "I'm going to be late for work but it's worth...
...themselves. That's what I'm going to tell my caller--to figure it out for himself. And when he leaves the great Lamont Library that is Harvard, my only hope is that he will be able to pull out his bag of discoveries, to look the Imperial Checker straight in the eye and say: "Just...
...battles rage on. Lowell House Committee established its own Monroe Doctrine during the recent opera, and action which brought down heavy crossfire on innocent Lowell House checker, Winnifred Linnane. Usually in favor of interhouse, Linnane had to bear the brunt of the ruling: "they think it's me," she protests, "but it's you kids...
...headquarters in Dzerzhinsky Square, but he appeared to be relatively untainted by the job. Some foreign observers even considered him to be a closet reformer. Word was spread around Moscow and Western capitals that he was really a secret liberal who read trashy American novels and listened to Chubby Checker albums. A rare Andropov interview published in the West German magazine Der Spiegel brought the rumor mill grinding to a halt. Andropov acknowledged that he had traditional tastes. He said that he did not play tennis but did enjoy Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata. But even these sparse...
...people, and there are more saunas than ice rinks. Though he is the finest hockey player the Finns have ever exported to North America, Kurri returns home each spring to a pleasant obscurity. He is a splendid skater, a strong outside shooter, an artful stickhandler and a responsible back checker. Judging right wingers, Gretzky puts Kurri in a class with the New York Islanders' Mike Bossy. Among all-round players, he may even rate with the Islanders' Bryan Trottier. Kurri does not care to be lumped with the other Europeans in the N.H.L., particularly the Swedes, whom...