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Hopes are that Harvard's history of humble hops off the ski jump will change with high-flyer Scott Woodward hurling himself toward Helios and the most distant hash marks. The hazel-haired Woodward hopes not to be handicapped by Harvard's hideous climatic habits through a combination of norther practice and hometown exercise on the Harvard team's hand-crafted roller jump...
Without his trade-for-anything pitch, Nouhan figures that December's sales would have plunged even more than the 30% drop below normal. Recently he took a flyer of a different sort and allowed $4,000 for two leases on oil wells being drilled near Traverse City, Mich. A gusher, he points out, would ease a lot of the pain and frustration of trying to sell autos in the middle of Detroit in the middle of a recession...
...wildest brawls in hockey history. When Orest Kindra-chuk of the Philadelphia Flyers and Mike Christie of the California Golden Seals were penalized for fighting earlier this season at Oakland's arena, they quickly resumed their scuffle in the penalty box. Other Flyers wasted no time charging into battle, and they were followed by some of the Seals. When officials finally broke it up 40 minutes later, they slapped 170 penalty minutes on ten players from both teams, ejecting eight from the game. Was Flyer Coach Fred Shero chagrined at the conduct of his team? Not a chance. "Some...
Shero's critics charge that he sends his men onto the ice looking for a fight. Opponents point to the presence of three "enforcers" in the Flyer lineup-Defense Man Andre ("Moose") Dupont and Wings Bob ("the Hound") Kelly and Dave ("the Hammer") Shultz. That trio seem to swing more at opponents than at the puck. Shultz set a league record of his own last season by occupying the penalty box for 348 minutes, the equivalent of almost six full games. (This year may be worse. He already has accumulated more than 200 penalty minutes...
Nelson Rockefeller's stock and bond portfolio, like the man, is basically conservative-with a tendency to take an occasional flyer into the unknown...