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These old friends and adversaries had once made the national press with a backyard decathlon, one of whose events required contestants to dogtrot through the intricacies of a croquet course, portaging a full-size canoe. But while the decathlon was amusing, it was not fully satisfying in terms of life-or-death savagery. The symbolism of the Nel-Spot, on the other hand, was red in tooth and claw. Someone mentioned seeing an ad for the pistol in a magazine, and it was instantly clear that opportunities for misuse were endless. The three of them roughed out the National Survival...
...employment firm: "There isn't a male I know of in an executive position who would accept raising kids as a legitimate excuse for not working for three years." Note the "not working": to Mr. Arons, a one-way ticket to the T.S. Garp Hit-the-Mat Seminar and Backyard Barbecue, held yearly on the grounds of the Hotel New Hampshire...
...start the new service, hoping for FCC construction permits within 90 days. Admits William Bresnan, chairman of Group W Cable, a subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric: "They are needed in rural areas we can't reach." Unaffected by the new FCC rules are the large (12 ft.) backyard dishes that can already listen in on a whole variety of satellite signals, including the prime-time offerings of the cable outfits. Most of the new broadcasts will probably be scrambled to prevent unauthorized tapping...
...remember walking in my backyard when I was three and thinking about God. Looking at the green grass and the moss on a stone--that's all I can remember, but somehow it was very proto-spiritual." Twentieth-century Harvard produces few Calvinist theologians, but this morning it will graduate one Charles Dana Klingensmith...
...were trained to read a lot: we didn't watch TV" And in a state described on its "Welcome to West Virginia" border signs as "The Closest P'ace to Heaven," a state where a town of 3000 might boast a dozen churches. Klingensmith learned about God, in the backyard with the moss and the grass, and in a relatively liberal Methodist congregation...