Word: ralph
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...Public Citizen Health Research Group, formed by Ralph Nader and Dr. Sidney Wolfe ten years ago, released a report of conversations among physicians at three major medical teaching facilities, Boston City Hospital, Los Angeles County Hospital and Baltimore City Hospital. In the report, a Boston City Hospital resident said, "We like to do a hysterectomy, it's more of a challenge...you know a well-trained chimpanzee can do a tubal ligation...
...teams played even, fast-paced hockey for the next ten minutes, until Wildcat Ralph Robinson went off for slashing at 16:35. Near the 18-minute mark, Mark Fusco took a pass from Alan Litchfield at center ice and, uncharacteristically, popped into the UNH zone, slipped between two defenders and beat Pearson low to his right. The power play goal (Harvard is now 13 for 41 with a man-advantage) put Harvard well on its way to its fifth consecutive win over...
...Crimson did pelt the New Hampshire net with a respectable 25 shots, and few this season have been more spectacular than Mark Fusco's power-play goal with two minutes left in the first period. With Harvard up, 2-1, and Ralph Robinson off for slashing, Fusco took an Alan Litchfield pass in his own zone, crossed center ice and the UNH blueline, and instead of stopping for his usual slapshot from the point, cruised in on Pearson past everybody and flippped the puck into the twines...
...Cubs signed free-agent pitchers Ferguson Jenkins and Bill Campbell and traded pitcher Mike Krukow to Philadelphia for pitchers Dickie Noles and Dan Larson and catcher Keith Moreland. In other baseball news, Brewers third baseman and designated hitter Sal Bando officially announced his retirement, the Red Sox extended manager Ralph Houk's contract until 1984, and George Steinbrenner has signed manager Bob Lemon to "a lifetime contract in the organization" that includes managing the Yankees...
Some coaches, including Lou Carnesecca of St. John's, still begin every season by passing around a scrapbook of yellowed clippings from the " '51 scandals"-tattered stories of Sherman White (Long Island University), Floyd Layne (City College of New York) or Ralph Beard (Kentucky). But he may be making a different, unintended point as well. Those clippings are yellowed, and today's scandals just do not make the same sort of headlines...