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...played between the Georgetown Hoyas and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Even if you know what a hoya or a tarheel is, the only sensible strategy is to forget it. (For those overwhelmed by a need to know, hoya is short for Hoya saxa!, a garbled Greek and Latin cheer meaning "What rocks!," and tarheel originated during the Civil War as a disparaging term for folks from the Carolina pine forests.) Few knew what the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons were when a pro basketball team played under that name. (They were players owned by Fred Zollner, who also happened...
Best band and crowd cheer: A perennial favorite: "Hey RPI, you're just a bunch of MIT rejects...and MIT sucks!" Another: "Hey Schwalb, you're not a goalie, you're a Q-Tip!" isn't so funny anymore. The Yale netminder recorded 38 saves in Yale's triumph over Harvard Tuesday...
Several times during Harvard's dramatic sweep of Penn and Princeton, Roby pranced up and down the court, exhorting the large Briggs Athletic Center crowds to stand and cheer for his cagers. The partisan fans responded to Roby's arm waves, and--perhaps, not coincidentally--the Crimson players did too with a pair of upsets...
Surveys by Pollster Richard Wirthlin show the President's popularity inching up again, giving Reagan some cause for holiday cheer. The polls seem to have persuaded the President's strategists that the further away their boss is kept from the controversy, the sooner it will die. Perhaps to that end, the President last week appointed David Abshire, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, to a new Cabinet-level post: coordinator of White House responses to the congressional investigations and other probes into the U.S. weapons sales to Iran and the diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan contras...
...retrospect, Eisenstaedt's exile to America starts to look like a stroke of luck. Amid the prevailing cheer of the postwar nation, his upbeat view of things probably found a more ready audience than it would have in the more somber precincts of Europe. His chief mood is celebration. His chief attitude is assent. Is that the stuff of sweetness and light? Sometimes it is. But who can say no to such engaging sweetness, such abiding light...