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Freshman captain two years ago, and highest-scoring sophomore letter winner in 1951-52, Wood collided with defenseman Ed MrKonich in a center zone pileup...
...downhill race, over an icy and treacherous course, not even the winner, Austria's Trude Beiser Jochum, had much fun. The U.S. team skidded and slithered into a disastrous series of pell-mell spills. Andy, after one half fall and a daredevil jump ending in a ski-tangled pileup, led the U.S. squad but finished a sorry 17th out of 43. Her sense of humor still intact, she said with a grin: "I guess we're the crash and burn team ... I made a great jump-right off the course." This week Andy had only...
...tempered terror. This year he got a nine-day suspension for slashing a jockey, got another ten days for causing a spill, was fined $200 for cussing out another rider, and was out of action for 48 days with a broken wrist after a three-horse pileup. His slashing style ("If you're not squawling at the jockeys, you're squawling at your horse") may have cost him some winners, but Charlie Burr, at 17, can afford to be philosophic about it: his 301 winners and some 700 other mounts this year have netted him more than...
Television makers were harder hit. The supply of unsold sets had mounted until Manhattan saw a rash of auction sales, where dealers tried to move sets, frequently at less than cost. To stop the pileup, makers had trimmed their weekly output from last November's rate of 218,378 sets to 82,224. But in the same period their stocks had mounted from 53,070 sets to 505,848. Sales of washing machines, refrigerators and other appliances lagged as much...
...Gray took an early lead when Crimson goalie Dick Driscoll was caught in a pileup seven feet in front of the cage. A few minutes later Dick Clasby passed the puck from behind the Exeter cage, feeling Tyson, and letting Wood score easily...