Word: torrey
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Many of the travelers are old enough and isolated enough to need the trip as a passage out of lonely routines and back into society. Driver Michael Torrey pulls up to the casino around 11:30 a.m. and waits as his passengers move inside to swap their coupons for coins. "You'd think she'd need a walker," he says, pointing at an elderly tourist painfully climbing a ramp to the Boardwalk. "But she's in Atlantic City. Look at the willpower...
...freshmen and one transfer student will help rebuild the Clarkson team. Ken Anderson, a defenseman, moves the puck well and is a steady player. Tony Calandra and Alex Weinrich are defensemen who have "good potential," Morris says. Jeff Torrey is a foward who has switched to playing defense. "He is going to fit right in," Morris says...
...four-month trial was the first major case conducted under an international treaty that sets civil liability for oil-pollution damage. Forty nations signed the agreement after the 1967 Torrey Canyon oil spill off the British coast. Under the treaty, Amoco would have had to pay no more than $17 million. But Judge McGarr ruled that a ship owner can be liable for a much higher amount if negligence is involved. The actual level of Amoco's damages will be determined at a separate hearing that will begin on May 31, but the company's lawyers optimistically believe...
They were constructed from Goaltender Smith celebrates his leading role the beginning by General Manager Bill Torrey, along with Coach Al Arbour for the past ten years, to be rugged enough to stand up to the Philadelphia Flyers, scourges of the Patrick Division. But the Islanders throw their weight around reluctantly. Clark Gillies, a 6-ft. 3-in., 214-lb. Gary Cooper type from Moose Jaw, Sask., throttles troublemakers almost regretfully. Mike Bossy, New York's most prolific scorer, expressly refuses to fight. They put people in mind of the Montreal Canadiens, the only other team that has ever...
Montreal's demise is marked not by the year of the Canadiens' last champion ship in 1979 but by the retirement of legendary General Manager Sam Pollock the season before. Torrey, bow-tied and bespectacled, cuts that sort of figure now. During the Islanders' impoverished years, when their teen-age draft choices were always exchangeable for veteran castoffs, Torrey's patience formed the foundation of a castle. That dismal first season (just twelve victories in 78 games), a 20-year-old right wing born in Stockholm, Sweden, was so clumsy that he had to be tutored...