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Goodenow put the Crimson on the board first, at 6:22 of the opening period. With UNH a man down, he wound up from the point and drove the puck through a screen and past Wildcat goalie Bob Smith. Goodenow also assisted on Roth's power play goal late in the period...
Benton and Newman spin a yarn based on the exploits of the gangs of runaway boys who roamed the western territories in order to flee from the Civil War draft. The two heroes are Drew Dixon, an Ohio boy of sound upbringing, and Jake Rumson, a Pennsylvania wildcat, not only a runaway but a deserter. Jake, contemptuous of all authority and opinion other than his own, leads the gang Drew joins up with. And Drew, for reasons unexplained, becomes his only friend...
...Burke kept up their college friendship on hunting trips to such faraway places as Alaska, Africa and Mongolia. In 1955, Burke became godfather of the publisher's oldest daughter. Meanwhile, after starting out as a stockbroker in San Francisco, Burke made a chunk of money on a wildcat oil plunge and decided to go into the business full time. As Chandler revealed in a Journal interview, Burke asked him in 1965 to "introduce him to some people in Los Angeles" who might be interested in putting money into drilling funds, which offer special advantages to those in high...
...dockers, electrical workers, postal and communications workers and coal miners, who forced large swatches of the country to do without heat or power for the better part of a rugged month last winter. Even before the dockers walked out again two weeks ago, Britain had already had enough strikes, wildcat walkouts, shutdowns, sitouts and other assorted stoppages to make 1972 the worst labor year since the great General Strike...
...Tory government ever be able to make good on its pledges to end the ceaseless labor strife that has sapped Britain's industrial competitiveness and clouded its economic and social future? Sadly, that goal has rarely seemed more remote. In the first six months of this year alone, wildcat strikes and sporadic walkouts cost Britain precisely 15,460,000 "lost" working days-more than for all of 1971 and indeed for any year since 1926, the year of the great General Strike...