Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment, the cowboys are simply trying to shoot straight. "Cowboy four," Captain Anderson, an earnest young Florida-born pilot whose dentist father talked him past a water-skiing career by providing flying lessons at 16, is up. Circling a mile high around the mountains, Anderson suddenly dives to 200 feet to avoid "enemy" radar and screams at 600 m.p.h. toward the intended victim, an Army surplus M-47 tank having a bad day. The desert is a Jackson Pollock abstract, and Anderson is so low that when he is just four miles away, he can't see the tank...
Behind the mix of reservists and active-duty pilots at Gunsmoke is a troubling career problem. The hottest active-duty pilots often quit the Air Force rather than endure the desk assignments required for higher rank. They join the reserves or Air National Guard, where part-time Air Force life is pure flying. "They think we should aim to be colonel-managers," snorts one throttle jockey. Another problem is resentment against rusty squadron commanders just returned from Pentagon desks who lack the "need for speed" in combat-readiness drills...
...years ago, Harvard jumped to a 4-3 lead after the end of two periods. Two years ago, Allen Bourbeau scored a hat trick in the biggest game of his career, in the biggest game of Harvard's career...
Vesey's impressive 38-53--91 clip, the best mark in the nation, anchors a talented Warrior offense. In his career, Vesey has accumulated 240 points, another school record. Freshman Ben Lebeau (35-35--70)--whose numbers also set freshmen school records--and Rich Pion (32-37--69) round out the Warrior scoring...
...World faith in the perfectibility of man. This is downplayed by the Broadway cast. So is the Soviet's seductive charm in comparison with his American colleague's priggishness. Sam Waterston makes the U.S. delegate appealing even when he is obsessive. This gifted but erratic actor hits a career high with a scene in which he reveals the personal strain of feeling responsible for the fate of mankind. As the Soviet, Robert Prosky has most of the more poetic speeches, but he looks lumpishly like Khrushchev and erupts in rage just often enough to arouse an onlooker's caution...