Word: tracks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roller Derby is a watered down potpourri of several sports. It combines the speed of racing, the jamming of a six-day bicycle race, the blocking of football, the checking of hockey, and the team-play of basketball. It is played on an oval, highly-banked maconite track, 16 laps to a mile, by two teams of five players each. Each club has two teams--one of men, one of women--which race for alternate 15-minute periods. Two halves of four 15-minute periods each constitute a night's competition...
Later Reed summoned thick-spectacled, 43-year-old Anton Karas to London, kept him plucking away at his tunes for six weeks while Reed recorded a sound track. When the film was released two months ago in England, Karas' music caused as much of a furor as Reed's directing, Graham Greene's lickety-split script, or the acting of the all-star cast (Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard...
...Startling Fact. To track down this mysterious something, Dr. Diamond and associates decided to check on all the blood used in 179 replacement transfusions. Each donor's sex, age, and other data were marked by punches on business machine cards. Then the cards were run through a tabulating machine. From the machine came a startling fact: of 137 infants with erythroblastosis who got the Rh-negative blood of male donors, 27 died; of 42 who got women's blood, not one died...
...FRESHMAN TRACK...
...VARSITY TRACK...