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...agostino split time between 177 and 190 last winter and was the team's best wrestler with a 12-1 record and 10 pins. He settles into the heavier of the two slots this time, pushing Fred Smith (2-7-1) out of his starting job. Sal's only loss last season came at the hands of Yale's Joe Cooper when the Crimson grappler was forced by the team score to gamble for a pin...
Harvard's Ray Dominquez (118 lbs.) dropped the first match of the evening, 16-13, but Crimson freshman Rick Kief (126 lbs.) forced home a pin in his first varsity start...
Unfortunately, in a world as complex and unpredictable as the one Kosinski perceives, one must make judgments without any hope of foreseeing the consequences of the choice. To take a moral stand requires a plunge into the unknown, the acceptance of a "blind date." One must pin the carnation to the lapel, stand by the lamppost and await an indefinite fate, a handsome beauty or a dilapidated reject. To Kosinski's frustration and disappointment, most Americans would rather stay home and watch television than stand on the street corner and wait for the unexpected
...test of reaction time and muscle is also involved. Tom Buckley, 49, a writer for the New York Times, spends his lunch hours playing Space Mission at a Broadway arcade. One of New York City's most diligent pin pushers, Buckley addresses the machine in the classic stance. With body about 1½ ft-away from the cabinet, one foot slightly ahead of the other, weight leaning on the arms with index finger on the flipper button, he pulls the shooter gently and watches the ball rebound off the top arch. "This game rewards concentration, mastery of the technique...
...Those lurid back glasses, with their impossibly bosomed sirens or flaming heroes and devils, were the precursors of Pop art. Today, in Europe as well as in the U.S., some golden oldies are fetching prices as high as the machines they once graced. Tomorrow, they may be sanctified as ... Pin...