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Smith's pickoff move kept the Harvard runninggame grounded until matters were out of hand. TheCrimson, which entered the contest averaging 3.1steals per game, didn't even attempt to swipe abag, never called a hit and run and never buntedin falling behind 4-0 by the time Smith exited...
...budding bureaucrat has been missing since Feb. 8 from his Berkeley job. Missing with him, at last count, is more than $600,000 from ABAG's coffers. Investigators charged that, while ostensibly grappling with such area-wide concerns as water conservation, smog control and sewage disposal in his $218-a-week post as ABAG's No. 2 man, Truax, 26, was also trying to beat the system in Las Vegas' casinos. He lost "at least $200,000" at one casino, says California Assistant Attorney General Marshall S. Mayer, and perhaps more than that at several others, where...
...struggling discussion group seven years ago, depending on small fixed donations from its membership, which now numbers 87 cities and eight Bay Area counties; its financial practices were informal to the point of being nonexistent. In 1965, the new U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development decided to back ABAG's cooperative philosophy, named the embryonic outfit its regional planning agency and showered it with lucre. All told, HUD gave ABAC $1,080,000, sending checks in plain brown envelopes without prior notice, according to Truax's boss, ABAG Executive Director Warren Schmidt. For the past 13 months...
...Carlson of San Francisco's KGO-TV got wind of the quiz, did some probing on his own account, and became convinced it was a matter for the state Attorney General's office. Within hours after examining the agency's books, the hawkeyes latched onto the ABAG leakage, but by then it was already too late. Truax had fled, and ABAG, which had held such glowing promise for regional planning and cooperation, was now flat broke and appeared headed for extinction...
...sport was chamois hunting in the mountains hovering over the city-where the game poacher has always been a highly respected member of society, and where one of Austria's most important bits of national philosophy originated: Warst net au fig'stie g'n - warst net abag'fall'n (If you hadn't climbed up you wouldn't have fallen down...
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