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Thursday, March 1, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 Aggie toymaker envisioned [Rains to speak at Muster irst board game in a dream C£ (TP S' isi ——^M. n By LYNN RAE POVEC Reporter gck Slimp conceived Lever- a dream on a Saturday won in December of 1975. o days later, the Aggie d completed a working w l of the board game. By «nd of 1983, the Milton alley Co., which bought the B from him, had sold all 5p0 that it produced that s|year. [laid down one Saturday af- on for a nap, which I rar er do, and dreamed the ” Slimp said in a tele- q&e interview Friday. mp, a 1965 graduate of B, is founder, owner, and dent of the Star Game Co. lanassas, Va. He said his vi- njwas so powerful that he irked for most of the next 48 building a prototype of aard, pennies and nails. I pictured it fairly clearly,” said, “but when I started imake a prototype of it, I tight I should make it big- py the time the whole thing lover, I had consolidated it ck down to its original size." Leverage is a combination of eckers and Chinese checkers. P board is mounted on a I and balanced so that it is i s either level, or fully in- I | toward one player or the ■ I jhere’s no in-between I I Slimp said. “It’s always I | way down, or it’s at a lev- ’ * * ■< J|L - ' . ' By TAMMY KIRK Reporter This year’s Texas A&M Muster speaker will be Jack M. Rains of Houston, presi dent and chief operating offi cer of 3 D/International. Muster is observed each April 21 when students and former students of Texas A&M come together to honor comrades who have died in the last year. It includes the traditional roll call of the de ceased when friends answer “here.” The speaker for the cam pus Muster, the largest of the musters held worldwide, is chosen by a special commit tee. “Jack Rains is what we were looking for in a speaker,” said committee member Matt Hol ley. “He’s a dynamic person and highly recommended by the faculty who critiqued our top ten choices.” Rains was chosen mainly for his motivational speaking ability, says Renee Ramsey, committee chairman. Ramsey says she feels Rains will be able to reach the students and relate to them with his enthu siasm and still project the Ag gie tradition or Muster. Rains, Class of ‘60, grad uated with a bachelor of busi ness administration degree from A&M. Although in the Corps of Cadets for four years. Rains did not take an ROTC contract his senior year, but he did join the United States Coast Guard three months after gradua tion. He then enrolled in the University of Houston Col lege of Law where he re ceived his doctorate in juris prudence in 1967. Rains is a member of the American and Houston Bar Associations as well as the State Bar of Texas. He was chairman and director of the Houston Chamber of Com merce from 1981-1982. Rains has been a speaker at Texas A&M before. He spoke to the Senior Class at its Se nior Banquet in 1980, and to the Texas A&M Commission on the Visual Arts in 1981. Rains was vice president and director of the Association of Former Students from 1975- 1978. 3D/International, the firm Rains heads, deals with man agement in architecture, en gineering and graphic de sign. Field offices are located in Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. -*»• mflm “Leverage”, a game designed by an Aggie, is currently being marketed by Photo by JOHN MA KEL Y Milton Bradley. It is a combination of checkers and Chinese checkers. :al Red Cra reporter ti e child pro ing crushe in police ■r has a chil veil tie it oi car, becai wreck!" every pa: car crasli its in Leverage are won >ing the board toward the lent. To return the board lilibrium, point pieces are fed and awarded to the iful player. |layer has a choice of two igies when playing Lever- lie game is designed so it can be won equally well ing either strategy," Slimp le approach a player may We» > s to let a large number of mbat forces be captured. “ remove them from his f the board, thereby de- g the weight on his side, oard will fall in the play- baby will bt f favor; that is, his oppo- side will drop. fcwin the game at this point player would then have to Bible into the opposite | zone while he was still d in points. be other tactic a player may Vt is to overcome his oppo- with what Slimp calls “a lof forces and sheer firepo- ndretti, bm d don't kns no matter ot to have, I /■ ild be a laci loesn’t low -n a six-nw gift of life ' j, twisted i care would :orpse, laid asket, net* a the sand, >se. ep a baby f 1 ’ rjournals "or The BaM game-players who could see the depth involved. Slimp said he was disap- pointed in the nationally-tele vised commercial for Leverage because he thought it missed the sophisticated player. “The TV commercial has a little heavier thrust towards a younger market,” he said. Last year was the first year that Milton Bradley had Lever age on the market. “My company,” Slimp said, “actually went into production of the game before we sold it to Milton Bradley. It takes a lot of promotional dollars to market a game like this.” Slimp said he had a choice of bringing in more investor dol lars or selling to a big firm such as Milton Bradley. He also said a couple of millionaires were in terested in providing venture capital, but “they were also in terested in loo big a cut.” Slimp said he went into the toy and game industry full force in January of 1979 when he launched his company. Before that he had worked as program- /budget analyst for the U.S. De partment of Defense. 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