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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, tonight you can begin enjoying "Skate, skate, the puck's in front of the goal, it's on Cashman's stick, SCORE!!!" That's right, the hockey season commences tonight, and since there isn't a World Series game today, you might as well catch the Boston Bruins' opener against the Pittsburgh Penguins tonight at the Boston Garden...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Out of the Mothballs and Onto the Ice | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

Field hockey scoring machine Sarah Mlezcko: "If I could only skate...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Bed Sheets to the Wind | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

...impetus behind the new craze is an improved variety of skate. Borrowing the technology of precision ball-bearing polyurethane skateboard wheels, the new skate wheels offer the wearer an extraordinary maneuverability. Unlike the noisy, steel clamp-ons that kids used to wear, they are smooth and light, gliding over cracked pavement with silent grace and dispelling-deceptively-the fear of falling. Aficionados compare the sensation to that of skiing or surfing. The thrills are not exactly cheap: an assembled pair of wheels, skates and boots cost from $60 to $150, and customized ones can run as high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The New Wheels | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Central Park last May, Judy Lynn, 33, a former yoga instructor, opened the Good Skates, with 200 pairs of polyurethane-wheeled skates for rent at $2 an hour. There are waiting lines at her concession on weekends and on Tuesday nights, when city roller fans join in "Nightskates," a two-hour jaunt through the park. Last week they pirouetted and coasted to music from the New York Philharmonic's open-air concert near by. At lunch hour, regulars glide along the park's winding paths, lapping the joggers. Some of the joggers are in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The New Wheels | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...Circumnavigators Club in New York City include Senator Barry Goldwater, who walked around the world both ways at the South Pole; Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who holds the record for the highest circumnavigation; and Admiral James Calvert, who circled under the North Pole's icecap aboard the nuclear submarine Skate. But last week the 76-year-old club snubbed a sailor who traveled around the world alone in a 53-ft. sloop because the mariner was ineligible to join the club, which restricts membership to "men of good stature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Men of Good Stature' | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

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