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...follows a classroom-plus-preparation routine just as any teacher. The physical hardships of a Peace Corps job lie in the realm of adjusting to a different climate and different physical surroundings. These adjustments depend on good health, not on good muscles. The spectacle of a Peace Corps "boot camp" in Puerto Rico supervised by an athletic director, of all people, is nothing short of ludicrous. Nor is the imposing list of athletic skills listed on the Peace Corps application blank. If the purpose of the Puerto Rico camp is merely to acquaint the recruit with the sights, sounds...
...Swift Boot. In secret investigations the courts and even the Israeli Cabinet cleared Lavon of any responsibility. Furious at this disregard of his opinion, Ben-Gurion resigned as Prime Minister, forced his Mapai Party to choose between himself and Lavon. The party's central committee swiftly capitulated, booted Lavon out of his job as secretary-general of Histadrut, the potent Israeli labor federation. But audiences in Israeli movie houses booed news films of Ben-Gurion, cheered those of Lavon. Nevertheless, last week Ben-Gurion was prepared to resume his post as Prime Minister when he was disconcertingly balked: four...
Come Blow Your Horn (by Neil Simon) seems the best of the season's many bad farce comedies. It must be grouped with the bad ones because it writes most of its scenes in duplicate, smudging some of them to boot; makes most of its jokes in triplicate, and should never make half of them at all; and seems to confuse the typewriter bell with a cash register's. But Come Blow Your Horn does squat head and shoulders above a number of recumbent rivals: beyond a lively production, it manages to keep going; it has some fresh...
Almost before the fans settled down, the Tiger high-scorer, John Cook, put his team ahead, taking Perry Hall's pass from behind the nets and tallying on a 10-boot thrust into the upper left corner...
...Every boot who ever lived has had the lesson drummed into his shaved head: the U.S. Marine Corps is the best goddam outfit that ever existed. Its traditions are the most glorious, its battles the bloodiest, its men the bravest...