Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Royal Crown International, retraced Henry Stanley's 1,000-mile trek, from Bagamoyo to Ujiji, in what is now Tanzania. The New York Herald headline hunter took 71 months to reach Missionary David Livingstone in 1871. Glenn made it in 51 weeks by foot, rail and Land-Rover. In the process, his documentary flashed back and forth artfully but not artily between Stanley's diary and line drawings of the day and troubled contemporary Tanzania. Glenn's words were not quite up to his pictures, though. By contrast with ABC's Project Africa or with Stanley...
Spectators may not be immediately impressed, because the results show up not in spectacular plays but in the final score. The defense is as conservative as the most vocal critics accused the offense of being two years ago. The idea of a "monster back" or "rover," which has caught on with many other League teams, is too much in the nature of a gamble for the Crimson. But while it is hard for the average fan to appreciate, Ivy coaches paid their respects to Harvard's defense by selecting Cantabs to four of the eleven All-Ivy defense spots last...
...Leopard secondary, led by Captain Bob Albus at rover, is a veteran group, but gives up from two to seven inches in height against Crimson ends Carter Lord and Fritz Reed. The Lafayette linebackers are both 5-8 and weigh 175 and 180. That's a lot of size to make up for in toughness...
Looking back, Jeannette Kleinhans Lussier, 64, recalls most fondly the "wonderful times" playing games at lunch time, such as Last Man Out, run sheep run, Pom-Pom-Pullaway, red rover and, after the first snow, fox and geese. Homer McClarty, now an affluent well driller in Kalispell, still boasts of how his "big yellow dog Snipe" attended school with him every day for seven years, huddled close to the stove with the kids on the worst days and really deserved "a graduation certificate...
...soon as he got his driver's license, Britain's Prince Charles, 18, picked up a sedan from the royal carpool, and set off for a night on the town. Beside him in the front seat of the Rover when he pulled up to London's Vaudeville Theatre was a tall, smashing blonde; so naturally next day all of Fleet Street was front-paging hot items about "the mystery girl" and gasping that for the first time ever Charlie had a girl friend. Actually the mystery girl was just a friend of the family, Angela...