Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begin with, both teams get a point for showing up at the game. The Columbia football squad is the only exception to that rule, scoring minus two just for coming to any given encounter...
...inamorata (complete with mistaken identities, a fake death and an implausibly happy ending) that defies compression as well as credibility. Massine's scenario is too highly stylized to allow for many low jinks; the result is commedia dell'arte without any comedy, Punch-and-Judy minus the punch. The occasional moments of raffish humor are all provided by quick-legged Gary Chryst, 24, who leaps, whirls, jigs and flutters through the title role like a madcap superball. It is difficult to believe that Massine himself was ever any better...
...Mack Herron had carried a passport in his younger days, he could have listed his profession as loser. He majored in football at Kansas State, claimed that friction with his coach cost him a nomination for the Heisman Trophy, and quit school minus his degree. Pro offers were paltry, so Herron went to Canada. There he led the Canadian Football League in rushing but failed to awe the Winnipeg police. When they busted him for possession of marijuana, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers fired him. In 1973 he was back home in Chicago selling blue jeans for a living...
...this gives the movement $3 million worth of property in the Hudson River Valley. The Moonmen say income for U.S. operations ($7 million last year) comes mostly from street peddling of flowers, peanuts and candles-which is possible, given the fervor of his international corps of disciples. (As salesmen minus work visas, the aliens among them are now threatened with deportation...
Harvard's North American champion sailing team, minus the two All-American skippers it boasted last season, ran into some rough waters in its debut at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., this past weekend...