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...filled with stunning performances, but two were truly memorable. The underdog U.S. hockey team conquered all with its boundless enthusiasm, typically playing its best and scoring the goal that put the game against the Finns on ice when it was shorthanded because of penalties. Afterward, President Carter phoned Coach Herb Brooks to say: "We were trying to do business, and nobody could. We were watching TV with one eye and Iran and the economy with the other." But even the thrilling hockey victory could not overshadow the accomplishments of a young and unassuming speed skater from the Midwest. Perhaps...
...team is coached by Herb Brooks, who directed the University of Minnesota to the National Championship last year, and who, understandably, chose for his traveling 16 players who came from the state of Minnesota. The next largest contingent-six-came from Massachusetts, the other main center of hockey in the country...
Five minutes before the celebrations could begin, with the United States Olympic hockey team clinging to a tenuous 4-3 lead over the heavily-favored squad from the Soviet Union, coach Herb Brooks could be heard above the din of 8500 frenzied fans. "Play your game!" he shouted at his players, "Play your game...
...road. Last summer a 26-man team was culled from the country's hockey hotbeds (16 from Minnesota, six from Massachusetts, two each from Michigan and Wisconsin), then sent off on a grueling, 61 -game schedule (the National Hockey League regular season schedule is only 80 games). Coach Herb Brooks' team is a long shot, especially in the face of a superb Soviet squad, for the first hockey gold medal since the 1960 team pulled its stunning upset in the Squaw Valley Games (see box page 83). But the team could surprise everyone with its hybrid style, matching traditional North...
...maybe 150 people. They got out and started milling around the big iron gates. They chanted anti-Carter slogans, threw a few rocks over the red brick wall, got back in the buses and drove away. End of demo. I was headed for the cafeteria, and Embassy Political Officer Herb Hagerty called out, "Save me a seat, I'll be right there." He never made it. It was a few minutes later, about 1p.m., that the buses returned, this time six of them. They were crammed with people, both inside and clinging to the roof. And now all hell...