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Sophomore goalie Nick Boucher was a huge factor in both games, with 23 saves against Yale and 25 versus Princeton, including one of his best saves of the year on a breakaway shot by Tiger forward Ethan Doyle...
DIED. TIBERIO MITRI, 74, Italian former European middleweight boxing champion whose gritty 1950 title fight against Jake La Motta was immortalized in the film Raging Bull, after falling under a train; in Rome. Known as the "Trieste Tiger," Mitri held the European title in 1949 and 1954. After he retired in 1957, his boyishly handsome face won him a number of film roles, but he spent the latter part of his life in destitution...
...this veritable robot zoo, no company is more active than Tiger Electronics. The manufacturer, based in Chicago, is releasing about two dozen robotic toys this year. At its Toy Fair showroom, motorized sea turtles and jellyfish glide through bubbling fish tanks. Miniature mice shake when they're lonely and squeal when they're hungry. A 3-ft.-long Interactive Raptor (still in prototype) is so lifelike, it flinches when you pull its tail...
That may be wishful thinking, and there's certainly a lot of that in the bot business. Tiger claims its Mousies can sumo wrestle, but it takes a vivid imagination to interpret their random bumping as sumo body blows. Likewise, the company's seemingly endless line of Robo-Chi toys (cat, bird, dogs, even a plant) do little more than bark and squawk at one another...
...rotary saw blades. "I like anything that rolls and explodes," Leno says. "And it seems like a good outlet for kids--a chance to use technology and a youthful enthusiasm for mindless violence without anybody getting hurt." (Less obsessive kids will soon be able to indulge those impulses too. Tiger unveiled a line of miniature BattleBots--including Vlad the Impaler, $15--at the Toy Fair last week; they're scheduled for a fall release, angling to be the hot toys of Christmas...