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Before games this past season, the nine-man squad held small, self-conscious debates over who would show his face on the court first. As for pep talks, they have been abandoned by Joseph Fink, an entomologist who became coach two years ago after the original choice failed to show up. "I used to try to give them a pep talk, but it made them nervous," says Fink. "One boy started shaking and dropped a cup of water all over the place...
Marinaro, who lifts weights before each game to "get my blood going," needs all the muscle he can muster. Running behind the lightest offensive line (average weight: 209 Ibs.) in the league, he is the constant target of blitzing linebackers and stacked nine-man defenses. "Ed is a marked man." says Musick. "He gets more late hits and piling-ons than anyone I've ever seen." It may be true that some Ivy League defensemen couldn't raise a welt on a waterboy, but the pro scouts are flocking to Cornell games, and Marinaro is virtually certain...
...only previous appearance of a Communist Chinese delegation in the U.N. occurred in 1950, when Peking sent a nine-man team led by General Wu Hsiu-chuan to New York to "discuss" the Korean crisis. One U.N. veteran who heard the general's shrill tirades remembers Wu as "the loudest man we've ever had here." Peking's leaders have never exactly venerated the institution. Leery of its peace-keeping attempts, Chou has derisively called the U.N. "an international gendarmerie." In a recent interview in a Japanese newspaper, the Mao regime's leading intellectual, Kuo Mojo, called...
...each cell block-a particular gripe of prisoners who normally are allowed to bathe only once a week. Governor Nelson Rockefeller asked five judges of the state court of appeals to appoint a commission to investigate all aspects of the rebellion. Last week the judges named a diverse nine-man commission to be headed by Robert B. McKay, Dean of the New York University Law School...
...because many key parts of President Nixon's program have yet to become fact, economists of varying philosophies have brought forward estimates that are remarkably consistent. After having accurately predicted the slow recovery and high unemployment of 1971 (TIME, Oct. 12, 1970), a majority of TIME's nine-man Board of Economists predicts that in 1972 the gross national product will increase by a spectacular $100 billion...