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...training a superior Princeton squad, 4-2, in the final of the Ivy League tournament at Dartmouth. Hanover's deep-freeze was seeping into Thompson Arena, where most of the 5000 seats (all green) were empty, the rink announcer listed the Tigers' scoring in a voice like that of HAL the computer in "2001", and the few Dartmouth students who wandered by were decidedly pro-Princeton ("We can't root for Hahvahd"). And in the waning minutes, Princeton winger Kelly O'Dell pumped in two more goals to secure the Ivy championship...
...Hal Edward Noelke whumps out across his 18,000-acre ranch in his Bell bubble helicopter. "This mesquite," he shouts above the rotor clatter, "is a very competent adversary." Noelke can run his eye across the vast dun-brown landscape (gentle hills, a sweep of mesas off toward the horizon), and although the land is comparatively featureless to a stranger, Noelke can tell precisely what campaigns he waged in what year upon what stands of mesquite...
Some ranchers are returning to a technique that was used by the Indians who followed their buffalo across the land for centuries before Hal Noelke's great-great-grandfather, R.F. Tankersley, became the first white man to settle in the area, in 1864. They are attacking the mesquite with fire: bulldozing fire guards and then setting a careful blaze when the wind is right to take down an entire pasture of mesquite at one time...
...return to Capistrano, where the birds are a big tourist attraction. But the central California city of Fairfield (pop. 58,000) has for three months suffered an almost Hitchcockian invasion of birds. Starlings, perhaps 200,000 at one time, have chosen to winter in a local eucalyptus grove. Major Hal Biestek, a pilot stationed at nearby Travis Air Force Base, lives close to the grove, directly under the starlings' flight path. "It was so loud," said Biestek of the birds' chirps and screeches, "it kept us awake at night...
...Hal Greer, Wills Road, Frank Ramsey and Slater Martin were elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame...