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Harvey, who described the host team as "sort of physically intimidating," was pitted in a tactical battle with opposition coach Tom Nissalke, a former coach of the Utah Stars and currently a scout for the Milwaukee Bucks...
...other direction; a life that is more typically American than not. Before Harvard, Jeffrey Scott '77 had attended only one year of an American school. He lived in a suburb of Paris where his father worked as an international lawyer; his American contacts were limited to his family, Boy Scout troops and summer vacations every two years in California. Scott wants to get a law degree and eventually enter American politics. Even though living in France gave him the viewpoint that "people are people are people," it made him more conscious of his nationality...
...model, Margaux Hemingway had graced enough fashion pages to sup port a Boy Scout paper drive; as a businesswoman, she held a $1 million contract from Faberge for plugging perfume. What else could there...
...Scouts. The trouble, McCloy found, started in 1959, when Gulfs then chief executive officer W.K. Whiteford decided that his company needed more "political muscle." To get it, he ordered that a covert fund be set up. In 1960 the Bahamas Exploration Co. Ltd. in Nassau was transformed from an insignificant subsidiary into a firm that could "launder" Gulfs money and pass it along to politicians. Whiteford insisted that the fund be kept secret from the Mellon family and from the executives that he called the "Boy Scouts"-E.D. Brockett and Bob R. Dorsey. To the directors at last week...
...They overdo the whole business of juding raw talent rather than the ability to win games," says Brayton. "It's like in football, where they keep computer cards on every player--your height, weight, how fast you run the hundred. They emphasize physical characteristics. One time a scout told me that the best way to impress a scout is to throw like hell for five innings, and don't worry about how long you can last, or about where the ball goes...