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...first-round winners take to the ice after the opener is decided to the cheers and screams of the assembled throng of 15,000 fans--Terriers, Eagles, Huskies and a more somber contingent in Crimson--who have trekked to the Garden to watch them view for Hub hockey honors...
...aloof, and eyes seemingly focused past the throng, these stylish figures determine, to some degree, New York's fad and fashion. They don't need muscle to regulate the flow behind them. One suddenly calls out: "You! The lady in the white jacket." The crowd parts to allow the woman and her fashionable attire to cruise sedately...
Signs have long been a staple of the Cambridge electoral wars, as dozens of city council and school committees candidates fight for free publicity to escape the campaigning throng...
...Huskies, cheered on by the partisan throng and Coach Joe Morrone--who was so excited by his team's first goal that he broke his clipboard--put together some more great plays in the second half...
...image-conscious Gorbachev has repeatedly flashed his smile on Soviet TV, visiting factories and plunging into street crowds to deliver off-the-cuff speeches. In Leningrad, a woman shouted to him, "Just get close to the people and they won't let you down." As the throng pressed in on him, Gorbachev shot back, "Can I get any closer?" In Kiev, he suffered a rare public slip of the tongue, twice referring to the country he leads as "Russia" before correcting himself to say "the Soviet Union, as we now call it, and as it in fact is." The mistake...