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...campaign the prosecuting attorney at the Chicago 7 trial and has come down hard in favor of law and order and against "campus revolutionaries." He supports an early end to the war but has tried to avoid explaining just what that means while accusing Smith of being a rubber stamp for the Nixon administration...
...traction splint-a natural outgrowth of his investigations in wood form and function. This led to what the Herman Miller Company catalogue called "America's most famous modern chair" -two doubly curved molded plywood components, one for the seat and the other for the back, which were connected with rubber shock mounts to the plywood and bent steel rod legs. The aristocrat of the Eames family is the black, leather-up-holstered lounge chair, but what became every man's chair was Eames' molded fiberglass stacking chair...
...world's largest underground copper mine; Cerro Corp., with $15 million in copper investments; and ITT, with $200 million or more in the Chilean telephone system, a cable company and two Santiago hotels. Others are the Dow Chemical Co., Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., the General Tire and Rubber Co. and North American Rockwell Corp. The pace of Allende's actions will also depend on the state of the economy. "The more his back is to the wall," says one American economist, "the more likely he will be to move harshly and quickly." Few American managers expect to remain...
...only ones plaguing Lon Nol, but they rate high on his list. Last week, for example, the Communists held sway over at least half of the country. The economy is almost as worrying. The inflation rate is currently at least 20%. An expected 50% reduction in rice and rubber exports has helped to drain foreign reserves. The price of rice is rapidly rising, and the next harvest is expected to be 35% lower. The flight of Vietnamese refugees has cost Cambodia its professional fishermen, cutting down the amount of fish available. "Real shortages will begin to develop in the next...
...soccer team. He began playing soccer in his home town. Bathurst, at the age of seven. Regular soccer balls were at a premium, so Charlie and his friends began playing soccer by kicking around stuffed stockings. As they grew older, they used old tennis balls, moving on to rubber balls, half the size of soccer balls, as they grew more experienced. "Tennis balls were really great because they improved our reflexes. When we finally began to play with regular soccer balls, our reactions had become so quick that we had no problems handling the ball," Charlie said...