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With a Kennedyesque head of hair complete with untamed forelock, Sasser, 40, parlayed an infectious grin, native acumen and political apprenticeship with Democrats Estes Kefauver and Albert Gore into an upset primary victory. Now he stalks voters relentlessly, grasping hands, patting farmers' backs and children's heads, spouting a Carter-like populism and depicting the beleaguered Brock as a patrician far removed from the concerns of ordinary people...
Though many of California's unaccredited law schools have eyes fixed on quick bucks, at least one offers a kind of legal education hard to find elsewhere. San Francisco's pioneering New College, which will graduate its first class next year, attracts applicants because of its apprenticeship program in public-interest law. Last year 60% of its first-year students passed the baby bar exam. Getting a job, however, is another matter. In 1975 there were 34,000 law school graduates round the country looking for work-and only 26,000 jobs...
...after a lifetime's apprenticeship in obscurity, Jones has suddenly found himself beset by fame. "This has been a weird year," he says, and the coming year will be even weirder as he develops, willy-nilly, into the latest candidate for great American playwright...
...distinguished linguistics professor who migrated to the U.S. in the '30s and settled in New Jersey, where he taught for many years at Princeton University Consequently, his son got his education in that area (Lawrenceville, Princeton High School, Columbia University) and, after an apprenticeship in local newspapers, joined TIME-LIFE...
Though thousands of middle-aged victims of heart disease have undergone such operations in the past decade, this was no ordinary patient. He was William A. Nolen, M.D., author of the 1970 bestseller The Making of a Surgeon, a startlingly candid behind-the-scenes account of his surgical apprenticeship at New York's Bellevue Hospital, and other popular books. Not one to miss an opportunity to publish, the articulate Litchfield, Minn., surgeon has now made the most of his unfamiliar position at the other end of the scalpel. In a new book titled Surgeon Under the Knife (Coward, McCann...