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...yesterday, the Harvard hockey team boarded a bus and departed on their last--and longest--road trip of the season, a 500-mile jaunt to upstate New York. The icemen close out their 1979-80 season this weekend, facing St. Lawrence tonight in Canton, and driving down the road tomorrow to play the Golden Knights of Clarkson in Potsdam...
...race. Not just any race, but the finals of the EAIAW 1650 freestyle, the longest and probably most grueling race of the Eastern Championships...
Meanwhile, the exposure of Eichmann's co-workers continues. In Cologne, three former Gestapo agents-one the mayor of a Bavarian town-were convicted of deporting 73,000 French Jews and Communists to Nazi concentration camps. The longest sentence given was for twelve years. During the 18-week trial, which was attended by dozens of angry survivors of Auschwitz and Treblinka, the defendants denied knowing at the time the real purpose of the death camps. They were imprisoned last week while a higher court heard their appeals...
...Pink Floyd still machine-tools the kind of head-shop Muzak that they helped pioneer during the first shocks of the '60s psychedelic movement and that, with considerable refining and embellishment, they shaped into 1973's The Dark Side of the Moon, one of the largest and longest sellers in rock history. The Dark Side of the Moon has sold 6½ million copies in the U.S. since its release, has been on the charts for 299 weeks and recently rose from the nether regions to occupy a respectable place in the middle ground...
...Eighty-one at Zigzag! Eighty-one at Zigzag!" The announcer, alerted by spotters, booms a coded warning over the public address system. Even before his echoing voice has died away, safety and medical personnel sprint into action. A bobsled has crashed on the Lake Placid Olympic run, the longest, fastest, most difficult and dangerous racing course of its kind in the world. Zigzag, an S turn that slams sleds at nearly 70 m.p.h. through two 60° turns in 335 ft., has claimed yet another victim...