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...history of show business. Here is Blind Tom, born to slave parents in 1849. Sightless and retarded, this exemplary idiot savant could play most pieces on the piano, classical or popular, after a single hearing. Here is Harry Kahne, who could write five words on a blackboard simultaneously, holding chalk in his feet, hands and mouth. Here is Matthew Buchinger, who was a marksman, conjurer, artist and musician. Not exactly headline making -- except that Matthew was 29 in. high and had neither arms nor feet...
Will the budget slashes affect the war on drugs? "We do not think there will be any effect," said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes. "If you buy the books, the chalk and blackboards and slide show this year, you probably don't need them again next year." Administration officials claim, as the President has emphasized, that the war is best fought primarily with moral rectitude and inspirational leadership, and only secondarily with money...
...Chalk it up to the fervid atmosphere created by the nation's concern over drug abuse, but some of the suggestions are getting a little wild. Attorney General Edwin Meese last week urged employers to help in the drug campaign by undertaking "surveillance of problem areas such as locker rooms, parking lots and nearby taverns if necessary." On the other side of the field, a group of San Diego civil libertarians who call themselves Question Authority have put together a three-minute telephone tape offering advice on how to disguise drug traces in urine. "Two large tablespoons of bleach (poured...
Other dissenters acknowledge that the size of middle-class income might have been squeezed a bit but chalk up the problem to temporary factors. Gordon Green, assistant chief of the population division at the Census Bureau, believes the flood of young baby boomers into the job market is responsible for a dip in middle-class wages. Says Green: "Since so many of the baby boomers were in entry-level jobs, they pulled down the overall average. As they get more experienced, productivity should go up and their income as well...
...ballet | world. Trading cleats and pads for leotards and slippers, the fleet wide receiver leaped to new heights last week with a troupe of inner-city youths and the Chicago City Ballet in a benefit for the Better Boys Foundation. Gault, 26, put in five practice sessions (but no chalk talk) for his number to the music of Webern. He was partnered by Ballerina Maria Terezia Balogh, whom he lifted with the greatest of ease before an appreciative audience that included Teammate Jim McMahon. Says Balogh of her dancing Bear: "He was very gentle, very relaxed and very sensitive...