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...half-naked woman in a red wig leaped wildly down the streets. Behind her marched a brass band with a mounted cannon; it fired candy at a crowd of more than 1 million people who lined Cologne's thoroughfares for the 151st annual carnival parade on the Monday before Lent. Parading or gawking, nearly everyone was in costume, and sidewalks were thronged with people dressed up as pirates, ducks and even gasoline pumps. One woman wore a full-length black body stocking-with two holes snipped out to expose her nipples. Several frowning, grumpy men sported greasepaint mustaches...
...outside. When Allison regains the lead, Petty cuts inside and roars ahead for good on the eleventh lap. Aided by a crack pit crew who wipe his windshield, give him a drink of water, change the tires and fuel the car in 17 seconds, Petty coasts to his 151st victory by a four-lap margin...
...Moonlighting on Patrol. Another reasonably satisfied-if weary-outfit is the 151st Long Range Patrol Group of Indiana Naional Guard paratrooper volunteers. Called up in May, they have since been hiking through the Georgia pinewoods around Fort Benning's ranger school. "We start with physical training at 5;30 in the morning, and we patrol most of the day," details Captain Kenneth Himsel, 30, an insurance executive. "We're not in the army to moonlight...
...jobs are, however, permitted. Although it can mean 16-hour work- days, moonlighting reservists are commonplace, as civilians struggle to adjust their incomes to military pay scales. "I took a pay cut of $300 per month," says Specialist Four David Waters, a steel-company billing clerk now with the 151st. "Did it hurt? You better believe it." For some reservists, call-up has knocked up to $10,000 off their annual earnings. Weekdays at 5 p.m., Airman First Class Mike Fields quits the 445th Military Airlift Wing's administrative offices at Dobbins Air Force Base outside Marietta, Ga., and drives...
...Congratulated his alma mater on its 151st anniversary. "The graduate of West Point," he wrote, "modest as may be his own natural endowments, goes through life ever facing a stern personal challenge-can he live up to the record of those who have worn the cadet grey before him? Happily for West Point and for our country, the building record of today's graduates is equal to that of their predecessors. A salute to all of them...