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...were herded into a coherent crowd to be background for some shots of a Harvard-Cornell game. The time spent on the actual filming was not much, but setting up shots and organizing extras and other such chores stretched one or two short hockey sequences into a three-day stint. The hero, Oliver, is a hockey player from Winthrop House, and Jenny (Ali McGraw) comes to see him play. As Ryan O'Neal, who plays Oliver, had never been on skates until two days before, Bill Cleary, the freshman hockey coach, stood in for him on the long shots-wearing...
...were surprising: they too were the way they're all cracked up to be by worried mothers and column-writers. One was a girl who made her living as an extra. She had what amounted to a routine acting job-"except it's very hard to get work." This stint in Watson Rink was even duller than most, she told me, but still it's not a good way to earn a living. "It's just once you begin, you can't give...
...stint as Dean may determine the fare of many innovations proposed in the Fainsod Report: how he negotiates with the Faculty Council, how he chooses members and relates to the "caucuses," how he interprets his own constituency as Dean of Faculty. The job logically calls for a mediator...
...After the soccer season you might call Gray a conscientious student. You might call him that, but actually he just doesn't have any other outside activities during the year. Bob's only post-graduate plans are a three-year stint in the Navy to fulfill his ROTC obligations and then further studies toward a master's degree in social relations...
...drafted into the Army during the Korean War, court-martialed twice for minor offenses (once for refusing to put on his field pack). He spent eight months at the front and won the Bronze Star. In 1955, after a stint as a New York cab driver, and now with a degree in business administration from the College of the City of New York, he went to work in Southern California as a statistician for the Southern Pacific Company...