Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale boasts one strong player, captain Dan Grossman from Omaha, Neb., but the remainder of the team offers little competition. Grossman, who stands 3-3 this season, earlier this spring defeated Navy's number one player, Kevin Miller, and took Dean Colson of Princeton to three sets before losing...
...garish, ultramodern rinks that are becoming as much a part of the American scene as drive-in movies or McDonald's. Since 1970 more than 400 rinks have opened-150 last year alone-many of them in suburban shopping centers in such heartland cities as Chicago, Omaha and Columbus. Moreover, gasoline shortages, which will keep many Americans from driving to lakes and beaches this summer, are expected to keep the rink business rolling higher than ever...
Last year the Crimson batmen stormed to a 34-3 regular season record and the NCAA Region I title before falling to Southern California and Georgia Southern in the college baseball World Series in Omaha, Nebraska...
...talked with groups of newsmen at every opportunity (four times in one day in Omaha). He looked every sturdy inch a candidate when, cheered by 4,000 flag-waving students, he jumped out of his limousine in Tinley Park, Ill., and plunged into the crowd to shake hands...
...ugly aspect of this situation is the awesome potential of journalistic influence. Crouse fully realizes the power of the press. He relates several stories like that of a Rowland Evans-Robert Novak piece which "helped kill McGovern in Omaha." There is a self-fulfilling nature to a reporter's prophecies, that they not only predict but determine the people's preference...