Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders of France actually speak French while a man and a woman translate into microphones and loudspeakers simultaneously, in U.N. fashion. The effect is clever but distracting. On the other hand, a sense of the seeming invulnerability of the French forces is aptly conveyed by having them outfitted like hockey goalies. Initially, this creates the illusion of invincible force, but later it is revealed as the symbol of futile totalitarianism...
...hockey team practiced on the Charles River rink, which became the finest in Boston after the destruction of the Boston Arena. Though the open air facility provided no storage place for clothes and skates, the continued cold weather assured excellent skating...
...winter was a fine one for the Harvard Hockey Team. They beat Yale 4 to 1 at the Brooklyn Ice Palace. The Elis were outclassed in every branch of the game. The 7-2 victory over Princeton left the Crimson undefeated and the undisputed champions of the East...
...There are two pages of fine crew pictures, two pages of dull wrestling pictures, two pages of out-of-focus winter track pictures. Nothing at all on the nation's best squash team and only a short paragraph on the Olympic crew.Whoever wrote cutlines for the four pages of hockey pictures couldn't spell Ron Mark's name and probably couldn't tell a fore-check from a slap shot...
While at John A. Johnson High School, Burger played the cornet and bugle, tried out for football, track, swimming, hockey and tennis. The busy youngster ran the student court as well. In that capacity he tried to bring charges against one teacher suspected of peeping into the girls' locker room. Burger's court was denied jurisdiction...