Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cook?a pastime she enjoys and is good at?and occasionally likes to get away for some fishing. But most of her socializing is confined to the small circle of girlhood friends with whom, until a couple of years ago, she spent Wednesday nights skating at the Arcadia Roller Rink...
...love of a man and the votes of 62 million women,* presidential candidates' wives this year are suffering tortures that would have given Martha Washington the vapors. Ethel Kennedy, three months pregnant, takes a fall on the ice as she and Bobby skim a rink for the benefit of photographers and the skaters' vote. Abigail McCarthy totters out of a sickbed to stump for Gene. Happy Rockefeller endures scores of bone-crushing handshakes daily. Pat Nixon makes her millionth airport arrival, to beam and greet the faithful. Only Muriel Humphrey, recuperating from an operation, has been spared...
...block of highly polished granite that looks like a wheel of cheese with a handle on top. And the game has evolved into a test that combines the finesse of golf with elements of lawn bowling, horseshoe pitching and pool-plus a dash of chess strategy. A rink (four-man team) scores one point for each stone it keeps closer to the bull's-eye than any rival stones. An expert curler can slide his stone more than 100 ft. down the ice with a spin so fine that it will curl tightly between two enemy stones and settle...
Last week the game's best brooms were in Montreal, as teams from eight nations gathered for the tenth world championship. With the whole country watching on TV, Calgary's Ron Northcott rink took aim on the title that Canada has lost only twice-to a U.S. club in 1965 and to a Scottish team from Perth last year...
There will be a hockey game tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Watson Rink between a combined Harvard team of freshmen and J.V.'s, and an all-star prep school team...