Word: toni
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MOTHER EARTH Music by TONI SHEARER Book and Lyrics by RON THRONSON
Number one singles player Joy Skon, using a consistent cross-court game, outlasted Pine Manor's first, Marta Schaeffer, 6-3, 6-2. The Crimson number two player, Marcie Richmond, had to depend on her serve to defeat Toni Carton. Lissa Muscatine, who earlier in the afternoon had to defeat teammate Ingrid Sarapuu to play third singles, powered by Pine Manor's Karen Logar...
Such assistance is urgently needed at the present time, for Bangladesh's most pressing problem is the threat of hunger. The population of the capital has been swollen by thousands of famished, unemployed refugees from rural areas. As Toni Hagen, director of the U.N. relief operation in Dacca, puts it, the situation is "desperate." "Blankets won't do, baby food won't do, midwifery kits won't do," says Hagen. "Cash is required for employment and reconstruction-plain cash." Food is urgently needed, of course, especially in the next two months, before the arrival...
Inevitably, the ethics of amateur skiing have been altered by the strain of the sponsors' competition. In the 1950s, Austrian Ski Star Toni Sailer supposedly earned a modest $1,200 a year from advertising. Eventually he dropped out of competition after the International Ski Federation investigated his role in Sailer-Tex, an Italian textile firm to which he had lent his name. "I hoped that my leaving would be understood as a protest against the hypocrisy of the so-called amateur status," Sailer said recently. "But the situation has only become worse...
...Italy, Germany and Switzerland have been acquired by British and American firms. The Austrian skimakers, who for the most part are the sons of the cartmakers and carpenters who started the business, have thus far resisted the temptation to sell out. "I am worth more every day," boasts "Toni" Arnsteiner, himself a former ski racer. "So why should I sell?" He foresees, however, that "in a few years, ten manufacturers will remain the world over. The problem is to be among them...