Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hockey team opens its season today at 4 p.m. against the Colby freshmen in Watson Rink...
...attracting more customers. Billionaire Howard Hughes thinks that joining a full range of recreational facilities with gambling may be the winning combination. He is planning to build a $150 million addition to the Sands Hotel that will include rooms for chess and table tennis, an ice-skating rink, a movie theater, a vast bowling alley and a poolroom. Hughes recently paid an estimated $17 million for the Strip's 524-room Landmark Hotel, giving him six hotels (and their casinos) worth $80 million. That moved him into second place after William Harrah in the high-stakes Monopoly game...
...warm, dry, milky-white synthetic surface that has been a hit at New York's and Philadelphia's winter sports shows, and almost lives up to its trade name, Slick. It is smooth as ice but 20% slower. Its great advantage is cost?$38,000 for a standard rink v. $300,000 for artificial ice. Skates bite easily into the surface, which has a guaranteed life of three years. Says Professional Ice Skater Randolph McCulley: "You can't cheat on Slick or you'll lose your balance. I would advise anyone to train on it. You'll feel like...
...Olympics," says Oerter. It is an inspiration that has driven him to triumph over his own physical limitations. Not once has Oerter gone to an Olympics as a favorite. In 1956 at Melbourne, the U.S.'s Fortune Gordien was picked to win; in 1960 at Rome, Rink Babka, another American, expected to take the gold medal; in 1964 at Tokyo, CzechoSlovakia's Ludvik Danek was the reigning world recordholder. Last week the man to beat was the U.S.'s Jay Silvester, who only a month before had broken the world mark with a prodigious heave...
...obvious--Harvard's sports teams, around 17 at last count. We'll cover the pro teams in greater depth this Winter and if you come out now, who knows but you may spend most of reading period in the Boston Garden press box. Or in the IAB, Watson Rink...