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...astonishingly enough, Fitzsimmons is, the Ivy League's top vote-getter in the NCAA- and NAIA-sponsored senior hoopla. Outside of Providence's Marvin Barnes (seventh in the East with 41,820 votes), he is the leading New Englander, a good 10,000 votes ahead of B.C.'s Dan Kulcullen (50th), Holy Cross's Malcolm Moulton (53rd), Dartmouth's Bill Raynor (55th), UMass's Al Skinner (57th) and B.U.'s Kenny Boyd (62nd...
...TROUBLE MAN, Marvin Gaye. Seven in February. From Gaye's excellent score for movie of the same name. Troubled atmosphere comes across. Gaye has regressed since his "Trouble Man" success, putting out the trashy single and album "Let's Get It On": "Ain't gonna push, push you baby, so come on, come on, come on, come on, come on darlin', stop beatin' 'round the bush...
Illegal Offers. According to N.C.A.A. rules, colleges may offer student-athletes nothing beyond tuition, room, board, books and $15 a month. In fact, many prospects report receiving offers of much more. Offensive Tackle Marvin Powell, now a freshman at U.S.C., says some of the recruiters who came to his home town of Fayetteville, N.C., last year promised to buy him "anything from a Volkswagen to a Cadillac." According to Powell-who says U.S.C.'s offer was limited to the chance to play on a winning football team-alumni from other schools "were always slipping me a $100 bill when...
...they do not satisfy recruiter requests to visit schools. Many black athletes have an added complaint: recruiters often act as if blacks are more susceptible than whites to under-the-table deals. "White coaches think that since most blacks are poor, we'll jump at the money," says Marvin Powell. " 'Your mama need help? Tell her not to worry,' they say." Says Moses Malone: " People who try to buy me make me very...
...most people, Park Place, Marvin Gardens and Baltic Avenue are just spaces on the Monopoly board-unlucky ones, to be sure, if occupied by money-gobbling hotels placed there by an opponent. But to Economist Ralph Anspach, those properties are part of a game that subtly encourages young minds to accept the evils of monopolization. "Some kids grow up not knowing that monopolies are illegal," he complains. In counterattack, Anspach and his 14-year-old son Mark have created Anti-Monopoly, a new, sophisticated board game that recently went on sale in the San Francisco Bay Area...