Word: toronto
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Reporter Christopher Porterfield was the member of the team to whom Rubinstein got most accustomed. In just over three weeks, Porterfield went along to New York, Boston, Toronto, Washington, Durham (N.C.), Columbia (S.C.) and Cincinnati, questioning and listening in airplanes, taxis, concert halls and at cocktail parties. In Columbia, where Rubinstein played a sonata that he had played two nights earlier in Durham, he seemed to be testing Porterfield. Striding backstage immediately after finishing the sonata, Rubinstein asked: "Did you notice any difference between this time and the night before last?" "Yes," said Porterfield, "this time was better." Rubinstein turned...
...sport of loose pucks, flying sticks, and difficult manuvers, is basically frustrating to the participant, especially when his team is on the short end of the scoreboard. It is not surprising that the last major brawl during a Harvard hockey game occurred during a 7-2 loss to Toronto in the 1959 Christmas Tournament, or that Brown's Bill McSween drew a suspension last week from Coach John Fullerton for fighting during a 4-1 losing effort against Cornell...
There has not been an empty seat at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens for 20 years, and the Boston Bruins, who have finished last in the National Hockey League for five straight years, regularly outdraw the Boston Celtics, who have won seven straight National Basketball Association championships. So the N.H.L. decided last week to expand from six to twelve teams, granting new franchises to Los Angeles, St. Louis, San Francisco-Oakland, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh...
...Harvard delegation, sponsored by the HUC on the Harvard-Toronto Exchange Program, draw heavy criticism, in the Toronto newspaper for a lack of knowledge about Canada. One Harvard student was quoted in The Varsity as saying, "We're a powerful country. Why should be worry about...
Nigro added that while American and Canadian students differed on some issues personal contacts in Toronto were friendly and disagreements "were on the intellectual level...