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Fortunately for Cleary and his crew, the visitors weren't anybody but the now 4-11 not-so-Big Green...
...Clearys weren't the only Olympians on the ice, as 1980 U.S. gold medallists Mike Eruzione and Jim Craig both played for B.U. Craig's saves (below, center left) weren't enough for the Terriers, as they fell to B.C., 4-3, in the opening round...
There are fascinating generational differences at work in the new American mood. One of them, says Pollster Daniel Yankelovich, involves the attitude toward work. In the older generation of Americans, says Yankelovich, "you weren't supposed to enjoy your job. Your reward was supposed to come later. In the '60s, work was pitted against leisure, work was the trap your parents were in." Yuppies expect their work to be rewarding, challenging, creative. "There is no moral virtue today attributed to self-denial," says Yankelovich. "Mondale was the personification of the social ethic of self- denial. He is the 1950s...
Beforehand, it was uncool to care: the world's quadrennial white elephant was lumbering toward Tinseltown, and so what? And besides, the Russians weren't coming; the Russians weren't coming. But by the time the great Rafer Johnson made it up the Coliseum's endless stairs, cynicism was lifting like those white balloons with the funny red and blue tails. The Games were going to be grand after all. For two glorious weeks, Americans sat transfixed in front of their TV sets, thrilling to heroes they had never heard of a month earlier. The images that flickered across...
...past, Western teams and Eastern teams each received four bids to the NCAA playoffs. The four bids weren't always split evenly among the tow Western leagues-the CCHA and the WCHA The ECAC always received four quarterfinal berths, and two quarterfinal were played on each coast...