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...then that's the beauty of ECAC hockey, predicting the top five finishes in order is about as easy as defeating UCLA's hoop squad with a pick-up team. I hate to admit it, but that old cliche, beaten to death by every division coach I've talked to holds true: Any Division One team can beat any other division team on any given night. Uggh...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Rock Steady | 12/19/1973 | See Source »

...help ease the prognosis of dwindling skiers this winter--especially the weekend droves--many areas are providing daily buses from Boston to the slopes. Waterville Valley has already announced the schedule for its daily buses which start Dec. 8. They will leave from six pick-up points in the Boston area and arrive at Waterville Valley at 10 a.m. The cost for the round trip ticket...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: For Skiers, It's a Buyer's Market This Year | 12/8/1973 | See Source »

SOME OF THE smaller characters illustrate the quality that Ricardo and Bangs lack. Paul Seltzer as the disbelieving doctor, Hope Brokman as a jilted secretary and Dorothy Meyer as a barroom pick-up all have flamboyantly intriguing people holding up their perfect faces. These personalities can support director Steven Glovsky's fetish for unneccessarily broad and stylized gestures, which hang ridiculously on most of the other characters...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: Promising Promises Unfulfilled | 11/3/1973 | See Source »

...this pre-Labor Day season, however, the local cars and pick-up trucks which drive by are frequently interspersed with sedans and stationwagons bearing out-of-state license plates and anxious tourists heading north to escape the heat wave and smog alert descending upon the East Coast metropolises...

Author: By Daniel H. Maccoby, | Title: Walking Through Maine With 'Down-to-Earth' Bill | 10/10/1973 | See Source »

...Nicholas is a pick-up team in the best sense of the word. The squad consists mostly of ex-Ivy League players who hold regular jobs, but like to keep in shape in their spare time. The mainstay of the team is Peter Bostwick, who is their coach, captain and plays center on the first line...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Icemen Face Saint Nicholas Saturday | 1/31/1973 | See Source »

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