Word: skates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enjoy exhibitions a lot more than competitions," says Regoczy, "because you can skate easier and freer. Nothing happens if you sit down...
...good example of the problem is when three weeks before the European Championships one man said to us that our style was the way everyone should skate," Sallay recalls. "Then, at the competition, the same man said our style was old-fashioned...
...hottest new product in home recreation," says Division Director Harold Roberts of Brunswick Corp., which makes Super Star and Skate King. "This is the Age of the Pinball!" exults Ross Scheer, an executive of Bally Manufacturing Corp., which makes Evel Knievel, one of the hottest games on the street. Worldwide sales of pins over the past five years have grown by up to 30% annually. Also booming are pinball rentals (at up to $135 a day) to party throwers, organizers of company picnics, and families who want to try a fast sample of the action. Used, reconditioned machines fetch...
...Guelph sky has been a high, clean blue, the way boyhood skies appear in memory, and at the rink one feels a sense of boyhood. Of course, the men have me mix it with them. In full hockey gear -was any errant knight more burdened? -I skate till my back smarts and my thighs are lead. It is good to leave customary places and remember. This is how sport ought to be: play some, watch some, give pain, take pain, exult...
...guys won't skate for free," said Bob Stewart, a husky defenseman who runs the Cleveland chapter of the Professional Hockey Players Association. In effect, Mel Swig shrugged. He hadn't bought the Cleveland Barons, anyway. He'd bought the California Golden Seals. When they didn't draw, he had to move them to Cleveland, and now the Seals-Barons still weren't drawing and a moving company was looking for $70,000-and that wasn't in the Cleveland till either. I mean, it was fun owning a hockey team, but this...