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...more oddly matched crews of the space age. Apollo's skipper had a military background and was a veteran of three space flights, including a trip to the moon. His two crewmen were civilians and space novices, one a serious-minded parent, the other a swinging bachelor who joined the crew at the last moment to replace an astronaut threatened by German measles. Yet when disaster seemed imminent, the crew became a well-coordinated team, acting in concert to save their spacecraft-and their lives...
...pretty sure I'll play if I can walk," Cosentino said last night, "because Brian's at a bachelor party right now. I don't think he'll even wake up before 2 p. m. tomorrow...
...ingrained Dominican worry about continuismo-the Latin American habit of hanging on to power. Just a year ago, Balaguer was publicly pooh-poohing questions about a second term, saying that "only a plebiscite of gigantic proportions" could make him run again. But more and more it appears that the bachelor President is harking back to the example of his old boss, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who carefully orchestrated elections during his 31-year rule. Under Trujillo, Balaguer served briefly as a puppet President...
Mosley learned well as a bishop. But the gravest problem at Union is direction: younger faculty and bachelor-of-divinity students want less emphasis on studies, more on involvement in society. Postgraduate students, older faculty and directors want to concentrate on preserving Union's academic excellence. Whether that gap can be bridged successfully is doubtful, but Mosley seems more than willing to try. "The groups at Union fight hard for what they want," he says, "and they want contradictory things. But I rather like that sort of process, and I'm not unused...
...stalk out of the room," says a Boston girl. "I know as many lousy black dancers as white ones." Well-meaning whites cause other problems in social gatherings. "I work in an office where I'm one of the few blacks," says a 25-year-old Washington bachelor. '"There are frequent cocktail parties, and I generally go. But as soon as I get into the room, the 'liberals' corner me. They want to talk about 'the race problem' when I want to talk about football or politics...