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Much sideline speculation centered around the new, paddle-powered waterbed rafts. These innovative crafts are just beginning to appear on the raft-race circuits, but, from all indications, it seems unlikely that they will ever catch on. Both the Water Bedlam (skippered by Tinker Lindsay, Tad Paul, and Lisa Noll of Adams) and the Delta Queen (manned by Henry Hardy and Terry Valenzuela of Adams House) ended up upside down. Apologists blamed the officials' launch for causing the spills, but cooler heads pointed to a basic instability of design. The crew of the Water Bedlam was somewhat compensated for their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rat Race Reaches River as Riff-Raff Race Rafts | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...Roger Noll and Dr. Benjamin Okner, economists on leave from the Brookings Institution, told the committee that while the leagues "implicitly are claiming that there is a strong public interest in preserving all 28 pro teams," poor attendance figures indicate that the endangered franchises are playing in cities in which there is "very little demand for professional basketball games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Wire Services | 5/4/1972 | See Source »

Nickens walked lead-off batter Phil O'Neill in the second on four straight pitches. Jack Noll hit a hard bunt past first baseman Pete Bernhard and out-raced Nickens to the bag. A second perfectly placed bunt between DeMichele and Nickens allowed catcher Dan Capen to load the bases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conlon's Pitching Checks Harvard For Holy Cross | 4/19/1969 | See Source »

With the score 44-35 and with only four events to go, Al Birch started what seemed to be an impossible attempt at a Crimson comeback. Birch cut four seconds off his best time in the 200-yard backstroke to win a come-from-behind victory over Cadet John Noll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cadets Sink Swim Team | 12/11/1967 | See Source »

...though Froniga is a gypsy on her mother's side, she is also a Parliamentarian on various other sides, while Yoben is a Royalist. Enter, inevitably, Oliver Cromwell, whom Novelist Goudge feels she knows intimately, including his conversation. "My lord, we must act at once!" cries "Old Noll" Cromwell to his C. in C., the Earl of Essex. "Let us do nothing hastily, Colonel Cromwell," answers the slower-moving peer, then adds: "Decisive victory now would prevent incalculable suffering." Probably, muses one character, they are saying the same thing in the enemy camp-and sure enough King Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Play, Gypsies! | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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