Word: pool
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...impact of Actor Jackie Gleason on Rudolph Walter Wanderone Jr. goes on and on. When Gleason played a pool shark called Minnesota Fats in The Hustler (1961), Wanderone, then known as New York Fats, was moved to sue. But the cash value of the movie's publicity made him change his mind-and his monicker; instead of trying to beat them, he joined them. As Minnesota Fats, he prospered, became president of a billiards-equipment company and starred in a TV show. Now he, not Gleason, is playing Minnesota Fats in a movie called The Player, currently being shot...
...Columbia has a similar structure. In Manhattan last month, an air-supported building housed the fast-paced musical Orlando Furioso in Bryant Park. Another protects the disassembled blocks of an Egyptian temple outside New York's Metropolitan Museum. In Mamaroneck, N.Y., a bubble covers the high school swimming pool; in Indianapolis, another protects a hockey rink. In Los Angeles, bubbles are used for classrooms...
There were no surprises last night as Harvard frolicked to a 76-37 victory over Brown in the IAB pool. A crowd of 43 looked...
...induction in the first three months of next year if they were classified I-A or I-A-O at the end of 1970 and have numbers that had been reached by their local draft boards. Under present policy, they will be ordered to report before the 1971 pool...
Nevertheless, the Bruins will be a heavy underdog in tonight's 8 p.m. meet against Harvard in the LAB pool. Brown hasn't beaten the Crimson since a one-point victory in 1939, and no amount of new talent which Brown may have will be likely to end Harvard's streak...