Word: hardwood
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After Penn had opened the flood gates and McDonald had swabbed the IAB hardwood box scoring 13 of his team's first 15 points in the half, Harvard drifted along aimlessly, rather like a shipwreck mired in the Sargasso...
...success of the Columbia wunderkind and New York's other collegiate squads is once again proving the old bromide that exciting winners on the hardwood can be just what the doctor ordered for a city seeking a new lease on life...
...city kids are sticking close to home and jumping on the New York City basketball bandwagon. Just a few of the converts from playground macadam will tread the hardwood of the IAB this weekend...
Whenever he can, Herman Murrah, 41, a wiry Mississippi conservation officer, climbs into his four-wheel-drive truck and follows the raised sand road that runs westward from the small community of Buzzard's Roost into the Pascagoula Tract, a 32,000-acre expanse of hardwood forest and bottom land straddling a 35-mile stretch of Mississippi's Pascagoula River. There he enjoys basking in the primeval beauty of one of the state's last unspoiled areas. White-tailed deer, black bears and game birds abound in the forested region, fish thrive in its sandy-shored oxbow...
...urging of environmentalists and the state's newly created Natural Heritage Program, the Mississippi state legislature in 1975 appropriated $15 million to buy the land from its owner, the Pascagoula Hardwood Co. But the company's stockholders were unwilling to sell. Undaunted, the state joined with the Nature Conservancy, a national environmental group, in another approach. The Conservancy made a tender offer for 75% of the company's stock. This time stockholders in the inactive company accepted, selling their shares for some $13 million. The Conservancy, now in control, promptly liquidated the company, took title...