Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outside chances have the Crimson going to Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., to face Lake Superior State or to Minneapolis to play the Golden Gophers of Minnesota...
With the way the Hockey East and ECAC tournaments have worked out, it seems logical to expect Hockey East to move into the Garden next year and see the ECAC move its event to Lake Placid, which is closer to most of the conference's contending schools...
...been the worst of winters. Temperatures down to -14 0 F. Shards of ice glittering on the Gothic towers of John Calvin's church, the Cathedral of St. Peter. The glacial wind known as the bise whipping the beautiful lake into whitecaps all along the quais that fan out from the Mont Blanc Bridge. Just last month, two feet of snow suddenly blocked all avenues to the Palais des Nations, the U.N.'s European headquarters, and forced the postponement of an international conference on human rights. Incroyable. Nobody could remember such a thing ever happening before. Swiss army recruits...
...hotels (12,000 rooms in all), myriad telex lines and multilingual interpreters. Says a U.S. diplomat: "Geneva is an ideal place to talk. It has square rooms, long rooms, high- ceilinged rooms, rectangular tables, round tables and horseshoe-shaped tables. It has restaurants, great shops, beautiful mountains and a lake...
Geneva's international role derives from its location, in a gap between the Alps and the Jura Mountains. Here Lake Leman, Western Europe's largest, narrows into the foaming torrents of the Rhone River. Wandering tribesmen settled at the lake's edge as early as the Bronze Age. The Romans conquered the place in 120 B.C., and Julius Caesar came to fortify it for his Gallic Wars. In what is now the Place du Bourg-de-Four, where a stone fountain gently splashes through the seasons, the Roman road from Italy once crossed the road to southern France...