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Competing on the side of a losing team can be as frustrating as trying to say "Providence, Rhode Island," without falling asleep, but it never bothered Ajootian. For him, track and field is a very personal, almost private experience...
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island--The Crimson icemen threw everything but the kitchen sink at the Providence net in the final minute of play, but Friar netminder Bill Milner rose to the challenge and Providence held on for a heart-stopping 5-4 triumph...
...spectacular subjects: no sublime vistas of landscape (unlike his early mentor, Ansel Adams), no wars, no beautiful women. To earn money, he taught photography classes-since 1961 he has presided, diffidently and sometimes with an acute resentment about wasted time, over the department of photography at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. His public utterances are few, and his letters, if one can judge from the excerpts quoted in MOMA's elegant catalogue, are among the dullest ever written by a major artist. ("Our Peru trip wasn't too great . . . Cuzco was good but really just...
Legal gambling seems to have had little impact on the multimillion-dollar illegal numbers racket, even though New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts and Rhode Island have introduced their own numbers games to compete with the illegals. The most successful of these, run by Maryland, has closely patterned its game after the illicit version. Players choose a three-digit number and can bet on it daily in multiples of 500; the payoff is 500 to 1 in cash, up to $600. It is a more honest game than the numbers rackets. Winners are always paid, which is not always the case...
Indian Offensive. Aroused by the possibilities of victory, other tribes are besieging Tureen with their demands. His eight pending suits now include the Oneida claim to 300,000 acres in New York State, the Narraganset claim to 3,200 acres in Rhode Island and the Western Pequot claim to 800 acres in Connecticut. Says Tureen, who lives in a farmhouse outside Calais, Me., but flies about new England in his own Cessna: "It's their land. Legally it's theirs, and they can have it back...