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...Paulo's industry got a running start from one of the greatest engineering feats on earth. The city stands near the Atlantic brink of a broad plateau whose rivers drain away to the west and finally to the sea 1,000 miles away in Argentina. In 1922, Asa Billings, an Omaha-born, Harvard-educated engineer for Sáo Paulo's Canadian-owned power company, got the idea of damming these rivers and guiding their waters back over the 2,400-ft. palisades to the Atlantic. Magnificently successful, Billings' complex of tunnels, pumps, penstocks and turbines...
Meanwhile, Asa Bushnell, Chairman of the Eastern College Athletic Conference, has proposed that all forms of recruiting by college coaches and all subsidization of athletes solely for athletic purposes for a vote at the Conference's meeting on Friday...
...seven point reform plan for athletics, proposed by the N.C.A.C. commissioner, Asa S. Busknell, after the most disastrous year of collegiate sports in decades, seeks to rebuild in a more severe form the Sanity Code which the National Collegiate Athletic Association dropped last winter...
American Forum of the Air (Sun. 2:30 p.m., NBC). "Too Much Football?" Speakers: the Eastern College Athletic Conference's Commissioner Asa Bushnell, George Washington University's Coach J. H. Rowland, ex-Footballers Arthur Bergman (Notre Dame) and La Vern Dilweg (Green Bay Packers...
...Bother Me." With the Huks calmed down, Magsaysay announced that he was going to police the islandwide elections-an announcement that was greeted by cynical smiles. He went at his apparently hopeless job with a will-and a method. In Pag-asa, he hopped around the country to beagle out phony registrations, restrain the gunnery of rival politicos, and spot the places where his troops were most needed. In one town where preelection killing had broken out, he had the entire police force arrested for murder. In still another, where a Nacionalista candidate had been kidnaped, he jailed the mayor...