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LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Achieved a 3.9 grade point average last spring semester at Cornell, receiving A's in Home Economics 102--Cooking ("Meals for Heels"), Food Management 205 ("Beefsteak"), and Botany 35--Corngrowing ("Stalks for Jocks...
Bull riding (an intercollegiate sport rarely found in the East) is his special event. Possibly America's craziest--if not most dangerous--sport, bull riding tests the gut-level courage of the contestants as they climb onto the back of three-quarters of a ton of enraged beefsteak and try to hang on for an eight second count. Doug has managed a couple of times to go the full count, and that's no small accomplishment...
When he is not writing about education, Kozol scatters himself all over the social and political terrain of modern America, touching on many of the well-worn bases of American ignominy. We are callous ("Death, murder, exploitation is not credible."), especially the wealthy ("The rich man carves his beefsteak with impunity because he first applies the knifeblade to his brain."); nobody is willing to take responsibility anymore ("Businesses incorporate themselves with somewhat the same goal: in order to achieve immunity from consequences of their own behavior.") Kozol weaves back and forth, often repeating his arguments. The result is not enlightment...
...Communist Party bureaucracies. In everyday life a Soviet citizen needs written permission for everything, from changing a job or apartment to getting a hotel room. Industry and agriculture are similarly stifled. Professional middlemen and grafters, adept at short-cutting the paper work and expediting anything from steel supplies to beefsteak, flourish illegally in the crevices of this creaking structure. But for most Soviet citizens there is no short cut through the numbing, frustrating maze of controls. The majority simply endure with apathy, and often, self-contempt...
...spacemen will also dine together. The Apollo crewmen will treat Leonov to a meal of potato soup, beefsteak, rye bread and cheese, strawberries and tea with lemon. Most of the American food is dehydrated and requires the addition of water; the Russians prefer space food that is already in paste form. Brand will get a chance to test ins skills on a Soviet chest-exercising device. On Friday, Stafford and Leonov are scheduled to hold a joint press conference, fielding reporters' questions from Houston and Moscow...