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Grimly anxious, the handball goalie patrols a soccerlike goal that has an intimidatingly large area-6 ft. 7 in. high, 10 ft. wide. He watches his six teammates battle the attackers in a scrimmage that resembles basketball played before a lenient referee. The players not only dribble and pass what looks like a volleyball, but they can also tuck it under their arm and run for three steps...
Admission at these state colleges is lenient (the upper 44% of California high school graduates), though many who go there are among the upper 15% in their class, and are eligible for the university. They go to state colleges because the campuses are close to home and because they think Cal is too big for learning and too devoted to research. Also, state colleges cost as little as $66 a year. And they are far from backwoods institutions. The top three...
Mercader proved a model prisoner, was soon managing the prison radio shop and teaching illiterate prisoners to read and write. Some mysterious source kept him well supplied with money and under Mexico's lenient laws, he enjoyed such comforts as books, special food, carpets on his cell floor, and the weekly visits of his common-law wife, a nightclub entertainer named Rogelia Mendoza. Last week, some three months before his term expired, Mercader was hustled out of prison and aboard an airliner to Cuba, a procedure that enabled the Mexican government to get rid of an undesirable character...
Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud, 58, proved surprisingly lenient last November when, in a bloodless coup, he seized the premiership of Sudan at the head of a military junta formed to combat "deteriorating democracy" (TIME, Dec. 1). No political enemies went to jail, and two former Prime Ministers were actually pensioned off at a liberal ?100 a month. But leniency has its limits, and last week, in the air-conditioned, blue-carpeted Sudanese Parliament chamber at Khartoum, two rebellious brigadiers faced a full-dress court-martial. The charge: mutiny...
...average card has a tag match (two-man teams with the members taking turns mauling each other) that eventually degenerates into a crowd-pleasing, pier-six free-for-all. Midgets may be there to jazz up the act. Here and there, where lenient local authorities permit it, women wrestlers appear to slap each other around. Someone is sure to take a mean-looking poke at the referee (an illegal maneuver in Missouri); someone is sure to heave someone else through the ropes (never over; that, too, is frowned upon...