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...adoption of his recommendations, Weiland predicted, would make for "a more skillful game." He explained that it would enable a good skater to skate around his opponent without being forced into the boards. This, he said, would make the game more exciting and more interesting...
During a preseason workout by the University of Denver's hockey squad in mid-November, a player was hit with a hard body check, went somersaulting through the air. As he came down, the protruding back end of his skate, two inches long, caught Defenseman George Congrave on the head. It gouged a jagged hole about the size of a silver dollar in the left side of his skull, above and forward of the ear, and tore out a piece of his brain. In an emergency operation, Neurosurgeon William Lipscomb could do little more than cut away the surrounding...
...outlook for Congrave was poor. He would probably live, but the skate blade had slashed through the areas that control speech and the movement of the right side of the body. It had also cut some of the white fibers leading from the retinas of both eyes to the visual center in the back of the brain, and other fibers leading from the frontal cortex (associated with intellectual and reasoning functions) to other parts of the brain. George Congrave, 21, a chemical engineering student from Edson, Alberta, seemed likely to spend the rest of his life more like a vegetable...
...week later against powerful Minnesota, the varsity ran into a different brand of hockey and came out the worse for wear. The Gophers simply out-skated the Crimson for the first period and then let loose with a salvo of goals to win easily, 7 to 2. It was in this game that Copeland broke his wrist. He was driven into the boards by an average body check, but as he swung around to skate for the puck, his arm hit the boards and his wrist was broken...
...Russia has some 500 subs to the U.S.'s 200, is building more than 50 a year to the U.S.'s half a dozen or so. The U.S. has three nuclear subs: Nautilus, Seawolf and the brand-new killer sub Skate. The Russian navy may have no atomic subs so far, but the new edition of Jane's Fighting Ships published last week reported that the Russians are designing what they call "under water satellites": nuclear-powered subs capable of launching IRBMs...