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...Wilt Chamberlain Rule, designed to force him away from the basket by widening the "3-sec. zone," in which an offensive player can remain for only 3 sec. at a time. Next came the Bill Russell Rule, which forbids blocking a shot when the ball is on its downward course. Now there is the Lew Alcindor Rule. College basketball's rules makers decided last week that players may no longer "dunk" or "stuff" the ball by ramming it through the hoop from directly above...
...other Asian economies are less thriving, most are reversing the downward spiral. Indonesia, having bloodily saved itself from Communist takeover, now has to repair the intrinsically rich economy that Sukarno wrecked. Malaysia may yet fragment into its original pieces, but at least it has been relieved of the huge burden imposed by Indonesia's harassing little war. Prosperous Australia and New Zealand, though far to the south, now firmly consider themselves-and are accepted by Asians-as a part of Asia, and take a major hand in Asian councils. A U.S. observer summarizes: "The Asians are not thrashing around...
...orgy. Money flutters around them; gigantic vultures hover about them. Huge, grotesque babies' heads, their mouths distorted with pain, are superimposed on pages torn from the Bible containing wrathful Old Testament passages and stenciled with prison numbers. Naked cadavers dangle; a pregnant woman is crucified head downward...
...camps: "Men were forcibly clad in uniform, beaten, pricked or stabbed with bayonets, jerked about with ropes around their necks, threatened with summary execution, tortured by various forms of the 'water cure.' In at least two cases men were immersed in the filth of latrines, one of them head downward...
...Snorrason's design for an ideal chair for the average man lies halfway between the pew and the club chair (see diagram). It has a seat that slopes slightly downward toward the rear, and it has a back-supporting protruding pad five or six inches above the seat, in the small of the back. For most people, the front of the chair should be 17 to 18 inches high, and the seat 16 inches square. Because no one chair can be ideal for everyone, Dr. Snorrason suggested that the chair in which a man spends most of his time...