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Still, an air of anxious, nearly jittery tension at Newell Boathouse yesterday verified that the outcome is still very much in doubt. But a lot of the tension broke during a free-for-all pick-up basketball game on the boathouse landing, played with a trash can mounted on the wall...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crews All Open With a Splash Today | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

...Square was deserted, and all was quiet on the Cambridge front. But while the rest of the city slept off the side-effects of Saturday-night partying, a group of middle-aged men squared off against a contingent of hungover women in what was far more than a mere pick-up game...

Author: By Mark D. Director and Jonathan J. Ledecky, S | Title: Bok's Deadly Set-Shot Sparks Jocks To 68-41 Win Over 'Cliffe Hoopsters | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Springtime is the time for birds, bees, young love. But not in Boston. In Boston it's springtime for H-tler. In Boston it's a whole 'nother smoke. It's a different ballgame--springtime rock howls in like a crewcut pick-up truck full of rednecks full of Pabst and Seconal. Scary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROCK | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

Ever since kids started throwing buckets of water onto their backyards and playing pick-up games, the Edmonton area has been the breadbasket for Candadian hockey...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Dum,Da,Dum...Futuite B.U.! | 2/17/1977 | See Source »

...inspired. There are paeans to rural drug use--"Illicit Smile": Please don't arrest me sir, I'm smiling because I feel no pain, not because I killed somebody--like one of you Babbitts. Probably has no meaning to you unless you used to get stoned and run pick-up trucks into trees...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Please Don't Bury Me | 1/6/1977 | See Source »

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