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...change their country through art and design, creating not just a style but a new "rational" man. All the conditions in which art can be politically effective-illiteracy, no mass media, belief in icons and so forth-were there in Russia; and yet the efforts of this supremely gifted nucleus of artists was snuffed out, by 1930, by Stalin...
With an extra line, an extra goalie and a new assistant coach, second-year Coach Rita Harvard should have few problems backing up a nucleus of experienced players...
Eventually his contracting firm became the nucleus of the Olayan Saudi Holding Co., a Riyadh-based-conglomerate that boasts revenues of $300 million a year from such varied sources as sales of International Harvester construction equipment and the distribution of Campbell's soups and other foods. An Olayan-controlled insurance firm, the first in Saudi Arabia, earned $101 million in brokerage fees last year; another Olayan outfit owns or controls 35 companies engaged variously in farming chickens, desalinating water and building Riyadh's new $4 billion airport...
Back from last year is a nucleus of veterans, including high scoring swingman Donald Fleming and senior co-captain Mark Harris and Tom Mannix, not to mention the backfield tandem of Calvin Dixon and Robert Taylor...
McLaughlin plans to start the nucleus of returning lettermen, with one exception. Besides Harris and Fleming up front, and Dixon and Mannix in the backcourt, 6-ft., 10-in. junior Bob McCabe--out all of the last two years because of a pair of shaky knees--will start in the pivot...