Word: player
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started on Venice Beach, California in 1965-66, where Morrison and keyboard player Ray Manzarek met, and drifted together. Manzarek used to say that he and Morrison would ramble that beach, full of angelheaded hipsters and motorcycles, exchanging organic mescaline for acid; weeping, laughing and drawing strange art in the sand with sticks. They wrote some songs together, and Morrison experimented with the poetry he started writing when he was a film major at UCLA. He read a lot of Whitman, Rimbaud, Sartre, Camus...
...Arnold "Red" Auerbach, general manager of the Boston Celtics, dismisses player-coach Dave Cowens, after the team fails to make the NBA playoffs for the second straight year. Auerbach confirms rumors that the team would like to replace Cowens with Harvard football czar and employee relations expert Wayne Woodrow "Icepick Woody" Hayes. "I mean with Kermit Washington gone we need someone with a good right hook," Auerbach says, between puffs of his cigar...
...women's varsity squash team used its hard serves to sting and daze all but one Dartmouth player in Saturday's home match, as the undefeated Crimson defeated the Big Green...
Number six player Wendy Sonnabend also picked up an easy three-zip win. The only four-game matches of the day kept Nell Foreman and Courtney Stimpson steaming and sweating at numbers three and four, respectively...
...attitudes as well as the locker room facilities merit renovation. "Some men there really dislike women intensely," she says. She finds the almost all-male atmosphere "very oppressive" and remembers several hostile outbursts from male members, including a denunciation by a member who accused Walker and a fellow squash player of using the club as "a girly pickup...