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...Tigers' quality of play has improved since they broke for exams. They forced Brown and Cornell into overtime, lost narrowly at Yale, and finally, after a 21-game Ivy game drought, defeated the Eli, 6-4, last weekend. Goalie Ed Swift has been playing superbly, and Ithaca native Walt Snickenberger has led the forwards in a decidedly more aggressive style...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Hockey Team Plays at Princeton in 'Must' Game | 2/23/1972 | See Source »

...Griese proved no match for the Cowboys' Roger Staubach. Griese, who gave up a costly fumble and an interception, was stymied at every turn by the Cowboys' tenacious Doomsday Defense. Staubach, meanwhile, piloted the Cowboys' ball-control offense to perfection. Sending Running Backs Thomas, Walt Garrison and Calvin Hill through holes as broad as a boulevard, he set up a pair of neatly executed scoring passes. Final score: Dallas 24, Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Slaughter | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...wrenched out of years of struggle in Disney's life. Disney was brought up on a farm, beaten by his father, and had a younger brother Roy, who continued to take care of Disneyland's financial side until his recent death. The family moved to Kansas City. Missouri, and Walt left home to try his hand at cartooning, in which he met little success, and then journalism. He worked for several of the same newspapers as Hemingway, but went West to Hollywood rather than East to Spain. After more failures with small Vaudeville routines, Disney began to produce cartoons...

Author: By Laurence Bergreen, | Title: Disney's Lands: Is the Shyster in the Back Room of Illusion? | 1/12/1972 | See Source »

...Disney creations gradually gained a more substantial reality in 1955 when Walt Disney founded Disneyland. Since that time, his animated figures have been gaining increasing reality through technological improvements, and Disneyland itself has become too real to be an amusement park. In conceiving of Disneyland. Disney again played a merely conceptual role in terms of actual design, although he personally designed Tom Sawyer's Island. This, taken with Main Street USA, indicates that Disney was primarily interested in pristine nostalgia for a lost boyhood mythology of the nineteenth century Disney must have felt exiled from this world when his father...

Author: By Laurence Bergreen, | Title: Disney's Lands: Is the Shyster in the Back Room of Illusion? | 1/12/1972 | See Source »

...underlying each of these courses seems born and bred at Disneyland. In the new Academic environment, the experience is given a new theoretical and often satirical thrust, but there still remains the intrinsic fascination of the possibility of technology to alter states of consciousness, or in the words of Walt Disney, "to make people feel they're in another world." The imagineers of Disneyland, of course, never say what they mean to do with all their rides, gimmicks, and audio-animatronical robots, but C.I.A. knows...

Author: By Laurence Bergreen, | Title: Disney's Lands: Is the Shyster in the Back Room of Illusion? | 1/12/1972 | See Source »

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