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Christopher H. Lovelock, assistant professor of Business Administration and one of the Center's board members, said yesterday there was also tension between Boles, the new chaplain, and the Board over its role in the Center's affairs. Lovelock said Boles wants to use the Board as a "rubber stamp" for his decisions...
...game is started by a mounted referee who throws a softball-sized leather-covered rubber ball between the opposing players in a sort of face-off style. The play then proceeds for four seven and one half minute running time periods called "chukkars" indoors, and six periods outdoors...
Vachon does not look as if he could get in the way of a cream puff, let alone a rock-hard slab of rubber rocketing toward him at 100 m.p.h. or more. At 5 ft. 7 in., 160 Ibs., he is one of the smallest goalies in the league; he has neither the reach nor the muscle that helps such players as Montreal's Ken Dryden deflect shots with shoulders and legs. But Vachon makes up for his lack of size with one of the surest, fastest gloves in the game-and an extra dose of daring that gets...
...other assaults against representatives of FUNAI, an agency that was set up to protect the country's vanishing tribes. The attacks mark a desperate new stage in a struggle that began more than 300 years ago, when the Indians first resisted white men who were looking for gold, rubber and slaves in Brazil's vast interior. Just since the turn of this century, more than 96 tribes have disappeared in the face of white expansion; the country's Indian population, which may once have been as high as 4 million, is today less than...
...Third World became a more exclusive, OPEC-led grouping, limited to those nations that are exploiting their rich mineral or agricultural resources. Emboldened by the oil producers' success, many other Third World countries tried to create their own price-fixing cartels for copper, iron ore, tin, phosphates, rubber, coffee, cocoa, pepper and bananas. Their leaders talked of "one, two, many OPECs." The grand plans generally failed because members have lacked the cohesiveness to make them work ?so far. But the new importance of raw materials moved some big producers to raise prices unilaterally. Jamaica, for example, abrogated contracts with...