Word: draft
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...Bruins, whose coach Bep Guidolin resigned Monday, selected Mark Howe yesterday as one of their three picks in the NHL junior amateur draft. Howe played last season with his father Gordie and brother on the Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association. The left winger, who turned 19 Tuesday, scored 38 goals and had 41 assists as he earned honors as the league's rookie of the year...
...Boston Celtics selected Harvard's senior center Tony Jenkins in the supplementary round of the pro basketball draft yesterday. The NBA champs chose the Crimson captain after seven rounds of the regular draft. The supplementary phase of the draft gives pro teams a chance to pick up local college talent...
Marvin Barnes led the list of names in the post-Walton round of the National Basketball Association's collegiate draft yesterday, as the 6 ft. 9 in. Providence College center was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers...
Working with stone hammers and crude huairas, or wind-draft casting furnaces, the Indian goldsmiths attained a level of technical skill that seems no less amazing today than it did in the 16th century, when that consummate metalworker Benvenuto Cellini is said to have spent weeks trying (and failing) to duplicate an Aztec fish of flexible silver plates inlaid with gold. The earlier goldworking cultures of Peru used hammered sheets as their basic material, but the Colombian artisans preferred to cast their images from gold. They were masters of the lost-wax technique, whereby a model of clay and charcoal...
Many thought that they had decided that in December 1972, when they put into power the first Labor government in 23 years. In short order, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, the towering (6 ft. 4 in.) tornado of Australian politics, abolished the draft, and made it clear to both the U.S. and Britain that they could no longer count on unquestioning Aussie support of their Pacific policies. At home his broom was just as brisk, and his Labor government imposed restrictions on big multinational corporations, which control about two-thirds of the country's mining, and gave big boosts...