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...speaker isn't Bob Harrison or John Wooden or even Lefty Driesell. These words of praise come from an unlikely hoop hotbed--the Radcliffe gym, and the proud speaker is the 'Cliffe's first varsity coach in over a decade, Perla Hewes...
...exciting finish to the second game of the opening round in the Beanpot Basketball Tournament last night in Boston Garden, B.U. toppled B.C., 85-83. The Terriers meet Harvard in the final game of the second annual Hub hoop championship scheduled...
...along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream...the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer and the sacred tree is dead." Black Elk of the Oglala Sioux...
...teetotaler himself, was obviously irked when legislative assembly members greeted his decision with cheers. The move had been more or less forced upon him. As Karunanidhi metaphorically put it, the state had become "a gem of camphor surviving unlit in the midst of the flaming tongues of a hoop of fire"-meaning that thirsty Tamils had only to drive to adjoining Pondicherry, Mysore, Kerala or Andhra Pradesh for a drink. There was also an overriding economic reason for repeal. The state faces an $80 million budget deficit. Toddy will bring in an estimated $35 million from taxes and licenses...
There are signs that the movement is something quite a bit larger than a theological Hula-Hoop, something more lasting than a religious Woodstock. It cuts across nearly all the social dividing lines, from crew cut to long hair, right to left, rich to poor. It shows considerable staying power: many who were in its faint beginnings in 1967 are still leading it. It has been powerful enough to divert many young people from serious drug addiction. Its appeal is ecumenical, attracting Roman Catholics and Jews, Protestants of every persuasion and many with no religion at all. Catholics visit Protestant...