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...tigers, coached by Vonie Gros, who doubles as the Olympic field hockey coach, took an early lead in the game scoring twice within the first fifteen minutes...

Author: By Abraham C. Marcus, | Title: Field Hockey Ties Tigers 3-3 For Third Consecutive Draw | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...They should be very good this year, especially because of their coach, Vonnie Gros, who also coaches the women's national team," Field said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickwomen Salvage 1-1 Tie | 10/20/1977 | See Source »

Conference participants will attend workshops as well as lectures during the program. One workshop, led by Frank Ryan, a student at the Law School and a member of the Gros Ventre tribe, will focus on the economic development of the Indian tribes...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: American Indians at Harvard Organizing Weekend Conference | 2/12/1977 | See Source »

...these skirmishes were part of what Europeans call the Great Franco-Italian Wine War. The casus belli is a glut of gros rouge, the rough red wine that is the lifeblood of most Mediterraneans and a mainstay of France and Italy's agricultural economy. A bumper harvest last year helped to create a Common Market surplus of 2.6 billion gal. At the same time, French consumers have been cutting back at the rate of one bottle a head; consumption dropped from a total of 1.3 billion gal. in 1973 to a mere 1.2 billion in 1974. Complains one French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMON MARKET: Grapes of Wrath | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

Novelist James Welch, 34, neatly juggles despair and hope; the book's sur faces convey both a sad seediness and a tumbledown vitality. Himself an Indian (Blackfoot and Gros Ventre), Welch lives on a 40-acre farm outside Missoula, Mont., where he is now at work on a second novel. Whites, he feels, tend to be too sympathetic or too harsh when they write about Indians. "We don't have those obstacles. To us, being an In dian is home." With remarkable force, Winter in the Blood brings its experiences home to others. Its prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Indian Maze | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

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