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Reserve outfielder Dave Ignacio will step into the starting left field slot this spring. Ignacio had a strong season as a pinch hitter last year and has several innings of varsity experience...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Depth, Hitting Strength Give Nine a Shot at League Title | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

Both Barry and Wynne played as freshmen, but not last year. Scoviak was the number one man on the 1970 freshman team, while Salatich played in the number six slot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weiland's Last Season Golfers Ready for Southern Tour | 3/27/1971 | See Source »

Operation of the pornetwork is simple. The tapes are run through a video player at the front desk. When customers drop a pair of 100-yen coins into a slot on a TV set in their rooms, the result is instant pornography, often in glorious Fujicolor. The odds are against tuning in at the beginning of the movie-the tape runs continuously. But picking up a show in midstream makes little difference; one popular pinkie simply follows an energetic coed as she hops in and out of a series of bedrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Sinerama in Osaka | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...headquarters. His enterprises were manifold and very often illegal. He smuggled and traded in the black market. When necessary (which was often), the subcommittee was told, he bribed or pressured high-ranking civilian and military personnel. At one point, he held a virtual monopoly on the sales of all slot and pinball machines, jukeboxes and other coin-operated amusements to U.S. military establishments in Viet Nam. For a period of three years, if there was something for sale in Viet Nam, Crum probably sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Money King of Viet Nam | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...Earl F. Cole, a deputy chief of staff at Long Binh base. According to Jack Bybee, a former Crum employee in Viet Nam, the general was paid $1,000 a month by Crum for favors. Once, when Crum was feeling threatened by the success of a competitor's slot-machine business, he asked Cole to initiate an investigation into the activities of his rival. The competitor was duly raided and forced to close. Afterward, Crum boasted that he had "paid for" the raid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Money King of Viet Nam | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

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