Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOUL ON ICE by Eldridge Cleaver. 210 pages. A Ramparts Book. McGraw-Hill...
Hard-core U.S. sports buffs might scoff at the game of curling - that is, if they've even heard of it. Imagine grown men playing a sort of shuffleboard on ice, with brooms and a big rock. One man slides the rock down the ice and his teammates charge ahead of it, sweeping furiously as it approaches a series of concentric circles with a bull's-eye in the middle. Even the name sounds slightly nutty. Wasn't that something women did to their hair...
...lawn bowling, horseshoe pitching and pool-plus a dash of chess strategy. A rink (four-man team) scores one point for each stone it keeps closer to the bull's-eye than any rival stones. An expert curler can slide his stone more than 100 ft. down the ice with a spin so fine that it will curl tightly between two enemy stones and settle on the bull's-eye. He can also send his stone thundering into the target to scatter enemy stones like tenpins while leaving his own team's untouched. The idea of sweeping...
...while it looked as if that same Scottish quartet would repeat. The defending champions swept through seven preliminary rounds, including a 10-5 win over Canada. But the finals were a different story. No sooner had bagpipers led the two teams onto the ice than Canada swept off to an early 5-1 lead, finally brushing off the Scots, 8-6. And some day, say the Canadians, the world championships may really include the whole world. The host nation in every Olympics has the right to add one new sport. If Canada ever gets the Winter Games, everyone knows what...
Backed by massive annual research out lays of $20 million, Alcoa's scientists have developed such unlikely new products as aluminum "ice cubes," which have to be cooled in the refrigerator like ordinary ones but have the great ad vantage of being reusable. Alcoa has also come up with a host of innovations in manufacturing techniques. With new production processes paying off in lower costs, the company has doubled annual profits during the past four years...