Word: careers
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There is little Cleary has not accomplished inhis hockey career. As a player at Harvard, hescored 89 points in the 1954-55 season, still aHarvard record. He led the Olympic team to asilver medal in 1956 and a gold medal in 1960. Hecoached teams to ECAC and Beanpot tournamentchampionships. And now, he has won the NCAA title...
...Reagan Administration's reluctance to expand the system and spend enough to preserve existing sites against an ever rising tide of visitors. "Professionals in the field loved him, but the politicians often ignored him," observes Paul Pritchard, head of the National Parks and Conservation Association. Mott's long career as a respected outdoorsman and conservationist will end soon with his dismissal by Manuel Lujan, the new Secretary of Interior. Mott, 79, said last December that he wanted to keep...
...under way. The designer is looking for rental space to house a museum for his collection of 6,000 black dolls. Paris Match featured a six-page spread of Grace Jones posing in Kelly's clothes. Michael Douglas stopped by to chat about making a movie based on his career. At the Louvre, television cameras from West Germany, Canada, Japan and the U.S. trailed the designer. "What's the message?" inquired a correspondent. "It's a heavy glamour trip," Kelly explained. Then past the clothes bite and on to the personality bite. "Are you growing up?" she demanded abruptly...
...starting spot on the Boston Celtics," says John Slaughter, president of Occidental College. Of the thousands who do not make the N.B.A., a few will play pro ball overseas or for the Continental Basketball Association, where salaries average $8,000 a year. But most discover that there is no career for them in basketball, that they must rely on their educations to build a new career. After playing four years, many leave school without a degree...
...education is an illusion. Even the most motivated students would have trouble keeping up academically while practicing as much as 30 hours a week. Many student athletes, moreover, are not primarily interested in getting an education; they see college as a stepping-stone to a lucrative pro career. When Eldridge Hudson graduated from high school in 1982, he was named Player of the Year in Los Angeles and was ardently wooed by college recruiters with offers of cars and cash. "I didn't even want to go to college," says Eldridge. "I wanted to go to the N.B.A...