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...grueling, 61 -game schedule (the National Hockey League regular season schedule is only 80 games). Coach Herb Brooks' team is a long shot, especially in the face of a superb Soviet squad, for the first hockey gold medal since the 1960 team pulled its stunning upset in the Squaw Valley Games (see box page 83). But the team could surprise everyone with its hybrid style, matching traditional North American aggressiveness with European finesse. ("Sophisticated pond hockey," Brooks calls it.) Against a variety of college, N.H.L. and foreign national teams, the Americans have so far won 41 games, tied three...
...amateur career that has spanned four decades, Cleary has put his cherry-colored act in some big places. Like the 1955 Beanpot finals, when he scored the winning goal in overtime that gave Harvard a 5-4 win over B.C. Or the 1960 Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, California, when he and brother Bob led the U.S. to upset victories over Canada, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia on the way to a gold medal...
...formally opened the 1960 Games at Squaw Valley...
What slogan persuaded the IOC to award the 1960 games to Squaw Valley...
...have had to argue with him for even small raises.) But where his family is concerned he spends freely: $500,000 for his McLean house in 1968, $100,000 for the apartment in Boston in which Joan lives and $75,000 in 1961 for the white frame house on Squaw Island, about a mile from the Kennedy family compound at Hyannis Port. He is at Squaw Island almost every weekend during the warm-weather months, and these weekends focus on family and sports. Kennedy loves the outdoors, even though he has dry skin and too much exposure causes...