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...familiar truism: he who is funniest while performing is rarely appealing when the camera stops. In Groucho's case, his wit didn't abandon him off the set, but the man Kanfer discovers behind the joker is no fun at all. By the time he breaks up with Chico and Harpo, Groucho has become a crabby miser, shamefully manipulative of his wives and children. You wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have this guy as a member...
...CHICO MENDES...
Illiterate until age 18, he eked out a living as a rubber tapper, collecting latex from the Amazon's trees. Yet Chico Mendes became Brazil's environmental conscience. He not only organized his fellow tappers into a rural workers' union but also formed them into human barriers whenever chain saws and bulldozers threatened the rain forest that was their livelihood. Mendes' Gandhi-like tactics brought him global acclaim--and enemies. A week after celebrating his 44th birthday with his children and his wife Ilza, shown with his picture, he was cut down by ranchers' bullets...
...Baseball" they are building in downtown San Francisco. In fact, since February, the team and the phone company have coordinated a "Park Pitch Road Trip," through which the ball that will used for the first pitch in the new stadium has been on tour. The folk of Sacramento, Chico and Berkeley have had a chance to throw the ball and symbolically take part in the opening. The celebration will culminate Opening Day in the new park, when a "Pitch Relay" will deliver the ball, Olympic-like, through the streets of San Francisco...
...kids who scored well enough to be promoted. Indeed, opponents of social promotion argue that the simple fear of getting held back will motivate slackers to shape up, and that the number of retainees will accordingly dwindle. "We're not out to flunk kids," says school-board president Gery Chico. "We're out to improve kids...