Word: hoopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fewer than seven freshmen are on the 12-man travel squad that will open Harvard's 68th hoop campaign tonight at Amherst against the UMass Minutemen. Gone are eight of 11 returning letterwinners--five of whom didn't even bother to try out--as McLaughlin has decided to go with his rookie recruits under the Ivy League's new freshman eligibility rule...
...those teams around the Rainbow Classic in Hawaii (Harvard has drawn Arizona State in the first round), add a Boston Garden date (against Boston College as part of a college doubleheader), sprinkle Holy Cross in for good measure, and you begin to understand wny even the most rabid Harvard hoop aficionado will settle for a .500 season...
Leslie Greis, who led last year's squad in scoring with 14.3 points a game, did not try out this time around, and her absence under the hoop could leave a weak spot in the Crimson offense...
...pain, stores are crowded, and sales clerks are often inexperienced or hard to find. One result has been a burst of new activity in an old idea: mail order. Not since Chicago Merchant Aaron Montgomery Ward put out his first "catalogue"-a one-page number flogging bed ticking, hoop skirts and $8 ladies' watches-almost a century ago has there been such high interest in ways of shopping without stores...
Bradley has himself succumbed to the fever and called for mild tax cuts, but his equally heavily financed campaign is basically resting on his hoop fame and a strong belief that the new right cannot take on labor and the liberals in an industrial state and win. He's probably right...