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...shame that Charlie Hodge could not have been sitting in a front-row box at the Oakland Coliseum one night last week-instead of crouching in the nets, tending goal for the National Hockey League's Oakland Seals. Then he might have had a good look at the shot that beat him. For 57 frantic minutes, while a record crowd of 12,025 howled itself hoarse, the improbable Seals-an expansion team that played its first game only last October-battled the fearsome Chicago Black Hawks to a 0-0 standoff. Outmanned, outskated, outshot, the Seals somehow hung...
...last, the inevitable caught up with Oakland. The scoreboard clock read only three minutes to play when Chicago's Bobby Hull swooped in from left wing and scooped up the puck. Whoosh! he flashed across the Oakland blue line. Wham! he absorbed a brutal check from Seal Defender George Swarbrick that seemed to stagger him. Hull's shoulders sagged, his curved stick came up, and for the briefest instant, Swarbrick relaxed. Whap! Hull's stick slashed downward; 25 ft. away, Goalie Hodge could not even begin to react as the rock-hard rubber disk, traveling at better...
Nowhere are the senates more energetic than in the neighboring dioceses of San Francisco and Oakland. The San Francisco senate operates its own office independent of the chancery, has even set up a "reserved affairs" committee to handle the delicate problems of priests who get into legal or other trouble or who want to quit the ministry. In Oakland, Bishop Floyd Begin has approved ten of his senate's twelve recommendations to date, including one suggesting authorization of Masses in private homes...
Broader Horizons. So far, none of the senates has the right to do more than recommend measures. But priests welcome the forums as an important new way to communicate their views to the bishops-even though not all would agree with Msgr. Francis Maurovich, an adviser to Oakland's Bishop Begin, who describes the senates as "the salvation of the priesthood...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Second semifinal bout in the elimination tournament to find a new heavyweight boxing champion: Thad Spencer v. Jerry Quarry, live from Oakland, Calif...