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...scorer in the league. Borrowing pro-football lingo, Defenseman Ted Green says that "this year we're blitzing. Last year, we'd drop back 15 yards and punt." The man who lit the blaze in Boston is a baby-faced 19-year-old named Bobby Orr, who in only his second big-league season is already regarded as one of pro hockey's most talented defensemen and a budding superstar. "Bobby," says Coach Sinden, "does it all. He's the only player I've ever seen who can operate at top speed-wide-open, breakneck...
...Percent. Rough, tough hockey has its price, and the Bruins have paid it-in injuries as well as penalties and fines. Defenseman Green missed two games with a badly bruised knee. Orr earlier this season had his nose broken twice within a week, and he was sidelined for half of December with a fractured collarbone. Both regular Boston goalies, Eddie Johnston and Gerry Cheevers, are laid up with injuries, and the Bruins had to make do last week with Andre Gill, a 5-ft. 7-in. 155-pounder who was hurriedly called up from the minors. Like everybody else...
...defense are Ben Smith and Bob Carr. Smith was second team All-Ivy as a sophomore before he was moved unsuccessfully to forward. Carr meanwhile grew into one of the East's sturdiest and highest scoring defensemen and took Smith's place on the Ivy roll, behind only Harry Orr and Skip Stanowiski of Cornell...
...among white students who were almost exclusively liberal Democrats. He was tagged "the Great Dissenter" for so often taking the opposition viewpoint in class discussions on almost any subject. But if he developed an independent political attitude at Hawthorne, he also discovered an independent attitude toward himself. Says Alexander Orr, who founded the school with his wife: "He was solid, happy, and proud to be a Negro...
...most of his other subjects. One summer, when he was not cantering through the park with Peggy and Navajo, he worked as a counselor in a Southwest Washington playground, supervising Negro children. "And that's the kind of thing," says Principal Orr, "that Guy wants to do when he gets out of the service-something that involves him with people...