Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...empty any theatre of ten per cent of its audience, 2001 is even now being re-edited by Kubrick to shorten the 165 minute length by 15-odd minutes. 2001, as it is being shown in Boston now, is in a transitional stage, the theatre currently exhibiting a spliceridden rough-cut while awaiting new prints from the MGM labs...
...Varsity golf team had more trouble with weather and rough putting greens than with the opposition yesterday as it breezed past Amherst, 6 1/2-1/2, and Tufts...
...match at third singles was the only rough one for the Crimson. A strong wind made it difficult to place shots accurately, but Chuck Benbrook was more consistent than his Tech opponent. That, along with a strong serve, proved to be the edge and Benbrook took the match...
Just don't say that to. the Scots, who invented the game almost 500 years ago. Or to the Canadians, who have made it their No. 1 participant sport, with 750,000 players spread across the country. In the old days, stout Scottish farmers slid their rough-hewn stones across the frozen lochs, nipping liberally on the "whisky punch," long a part of curling tradition as "the usual drink in order to encourage the growth of barley." The game was carried to Canada in the mid-1700s by Scottish soldiers who melted cannon balls into 60-lb. "irons...
...with groups of 20 delinquent boys housed at Highfields, the old Lindbergh mansion. After working at daytime jobs, the boys spend evenings listening to a selected boy's woes-and then deflating his rationalizations. Nonviolence is enforced by an adult sitting quietly outside the circle; but things get rough, for no boy leaves Highfields until he has proved to both his peers' and the adult's satisfaction that he has mastered his hang-ups enough to attain a very practical goal-avoiding future arrest...