Word: terrierism
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...minute mark of the over-time session, Harvard came within a whisker of beating the team which many feel is the best in the East. Crimson wing Kenny Burnes' shot from center ice carromed high into the air off the Terrier defense and fell at the feet of B.U. goalie Jack Ferreria...
...beatnik's beatnik, Harry Berlin (Alan Arkin), is poised for a suicidal leap. Up comes natty Milt Manville (Eli Wallach), who recognizes him as a onetime classmate at Poly-Arts U. They swap case histories. Harry tells a tale of existential woe that started when a fox terrier mistook his pant leg for a hydrant: "I was nauseous, sick to my soul, I became aware . . . aware of the whole rotten senseless stinking deal." Mimed in outrageously funny fashion by Alan Arkin, Harry is so sick that he goes momentarily rigid with paralysis and then turns deaf, blind and mute...
...love-testing suitor who stomps on her foot, rips her dress to the waist and throws her mink coat in the river. Four months later, the trio is back at the bridge, sadder still, and at curtain's drop Harry is being chased by a very persistent fox terrier...
Brilliant sophomore Jim Saltonstall scored three goals, and veteran Keith Chiappa contributed two toward the rout. But the individual who contributed most to B.U.'s demise was aptly named Terrier goalie John Lack, whose monumental ineptitude gave Harvard several undeserved scores...
...savvy of his own. Lewis cut back the Convair division, shifted some of its projects and executives to other divisions in the company and fired more than a few. With his aides, he analyzed each one of the company's 100 major programs, from missiles (Mauler, Redeye, Terrier, Tartar) and planes (B-58, CL-44) to nuclear reactors and metal forming devices. He speedily closed down production of Convair's money-draining civilian jetliners, but put stronger emphasis...