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...Senate subcommittee investigating antitrust implications of the proposed ABA-NBA merger was told yesterday that it is the ABA's failure to draw fans, not the bidding war with the rival NBA, that is the prime reason some ABA teams are in danger of folding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Wire Services | 5/4/1972 | See Source »

...pace. Thanks largely to postwar medical attention and food supplies, a majority of Biafra's starving children have miraculously survived; the state has 1,100,000 children in school-more than it had before the war. New buildings are sprouting amid the wreckage, and the great market at Aba is booming again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: Recovery After Biafra | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

...Aba textile mill was bombed five times during the war, and its machinery was looted, vandalized and scattered; yet its technicians managed to put it back into operation in five months. Nigerian army engineers estimated that it would take a year to rebuild the badly damaged waterworks at Nsukka; Ibo engineers did it in three weeks. The state abounds with similar tales. As the American manager of the Aba mill, a North Carolinian named W.A. Way, puts it: "Ain't no power on earth gonna hold these people back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: Recovery After Biafra | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

Died. Dick Tiger, 42, the Ibo tribesman who punched his way to the world middleweight and light heavyweight boxing titles; of cancer of the liver; in Aba, Nigeria. Tiger, whose real name was Dick Ihetu, was taught to box by British army officers in Nigeria before he migrated to New York City in 1959. Three years later he knocked out Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer. By 1966 he had moved up a class and took the light heavyweight title from José Torres. After losing the title in 1968 Tiger periodically visited his home to train soldiers for the rebel Biafran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 27, 1971 | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

...know that our concerns are widely shared, and we urge all who share them to voice them in appropriate ways. We hope that the President can be convinced to reconsider his approach to these appointments; that the ABA Committee will not hesitate to disapprove as many of the names proposed as its investigation warrants; and that the Senate--also entrusted with a constitutional stewardship--will hold the President to the appropriate standards in considering confirmation. Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Gary Bellow Harold J. Berman Abram Chayes Morris L. Cohen Vern Countryman Jerome P. Facher Richard H. Field William B. Gould...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NIXON'S NOMINEES | 10/22/1971 | See Source »

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