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...passing resemblance. The great stone visage is that of an Olmec god who had something to do with athletics. That fellow posing in front of it to promote his city of Veracruz had something to do with athletics too. As mayor, he is known to his constituents as Roberto Avila González, 53. But a larger body of sports buffs remember him as Bobby Avila, who 20 years ago played second base for the Cleveland Indians when the Indians had more chiefs than they do these days. Avila in ten years with Cleveland appeared in three All-Star games...
...Tony Cuccinello and Johnny Dickshot in 1945 27)Dale Alexander and Harry Walker 28)Ernie Lombardi, Bill Madlock and Rod Carew 29)Bobby Avila 30)Al Kaline and Ted Williams 31)Alex Johnson, Tony Oliva and George Brett 32)Mickey Mantle and Pete Rose 33)Ralph Kiner 34)Eddie Mathews 35)Jim Ray Hart 36)Wes Ferrell 37)Stan Musial 38)Jim Hickman...
Penn led off the upset parade Friday night under the lights at Franklin Field, bouncing back from an opening day loss tc dump highly touted Lehigh, 21-13, on the strength of sophomore sensation Phil Avila's two TDs. The Engineers, last year's NCAA Division II champions, were ranked number one in the newly created NCAA Division I AA after last week's 38-7 smelting of Colgate...
...AVILA COLLEGE...
Last January, for example, Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel dismissed General Eduardo D'Avila Mela, the commander of the second army in Sao Paulo and a notorious advocate of torture. That seemed to reduce the mistreatment of prisoners in the city, but there was a flurry of new charges that prisoners in Rio were being tortured. Some civil rights activists believe that the São Paulo torturers simply shifted their operations to Rio. "There is a national network of torturers," says one ex-prisoner and torture victim; "they coordinate their work. It is a system and therefore very powerful...