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...potent force in hockey has added immeasurably to a growing interest in the sport. For better or worse the Flyers have brought new muscle into the game. Fans cannot resist their intimidating play and all-too-eager fights. In Philadelphia, 17,007 pack the Spectrum for every game to cheer on the "Broad Street Bullies"; on the road, S.R.O. crowds come to boo the tempestuous enemy. The cry for blood explodes whenever Flyer Enforcer Dave Schultz (6 ft. 1 in., 190 lbs.) starts swinging for the nearest hostile jaw. Inevitably, other teams have been infected by the mugging malaise...
...Shah's loan to Pan Am would come just in time. The airline lost an estimated $75 million in 1974 and $165 million in the five years before that. This year's prospects offer little cheer for the airline. Jet fuel costs are still at record highs, the recession is cutting into tourist travel, and payments are constantly coming due on the company's huge debt...
Through coconut groves and brown, fallow rice fields, along muddy canals and traffic-clogged boulevards, millions of Thais made their way to tin-roofed voting pavilions last week in the country's first genuinely free election. If the 40% turnout was disappointing, there was still cause for cheer that the balloting went off as smoothly...
...fall of 1934, as members of America's touring all-star baseball team arrived at Tokyo Station, crowds of Japanese fans began to cheer: "Banzai, Babe Ruth! Banzai, Lou Gehrig! Banzai, Jimmy Foxx! . . . Banzai, Moe Berg...
Someone with a fiendish bent of mind is responsible for exams coinciding with the month of January. One of my roommates, a West Coast innocent, once asked plaintively, "Doesn't it ever stop raining here?" If the weather is getting you down, cheer up. Here is what must pass for the annual Crimson sports trivia quiz...