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...called any time until he reaches 27. Deferments are rare. In any army, a recruit's life is uncomfortable at best. The Soviet army is no exception. The new recruit sleeps in tents in summer. In winter he sleeps in bleak barracks where he has a bunk, night table and a tiny cupboard for toilet articles. Once a week, many platoons visit the nearby steam bath (the traditional Russian form of bathing...
Irving led me over to his bunk, one of several tiny rooms near the stalls. "This is a 24-hour-a-day job," he began. "We get here at 4:30 in the morning to feed and water the horses. After their exercises, we have to wash 'em, cool 'em, and brush 'em. Then we do 'em up. We rub their legs and bandage 'em with cotton and wraps. At 10:00 we feed and water the horses again. Before the race in the afternoon we get 'em ready. Then we wash 'em and walk 'em after each race. Feeding...
...Magarolas state so glibly that "Cuba's past underdevelopment is a myth?" Not only industrialized and non-"dependence on agriculture," but also economic self-sufficiency and basic human survival for everyone-those are the criteria. Figures are worthless bunk. A 1956 per-capital income of $520 is the average of the disparate incomes of millionaires, executives, doctors, campesinos earning less than $100 a year, prostitutes, and the unemployed (over 10 per cent). I lived in Cuba in that year of 1956, and people in Colon and Pinar de Rio didn't even seem to be sharing in that $520. Venezucla...
...call that may not be denied." Actually, for Britain's late poet laureate it was mostly a call to the rail. Describing his chronic seasickness in a 1918 letter just acquired by Columbia University, Masefield appended a cartoon sketch of himself lying in open-mouthed nausea on his bunk, with the caption: "O captain, stop this misery!" ··· He flew the 230,000 miles to the moon, and back. Now Lunar Explorer Alan Bean is as earthbound as a turtle. For a minor infraction of flight regulations while taking off in his T-38 from Ellington...
...manner of Mack Sennett's mute screwballs. Such flickering shenanigans are the most comical part of The Comic, but they are also the most derivative. The film gains its validity and poignance when Billy Bright reaches a crossroads and veers to the wrong. Sound movies are bunk, he decides, and abruptly the humor fades to black...