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...practice of their craft, journalists are frequently blessed by luck. It may take the form of a tip on a good story, a chance meeting with someone who turns out to be a Deep Throat, or simply happening to be on the scene when a big news event breaks. But, judging from the experiences of the staffers who worked on this week's cover story, journalists are no luckier when they gamble than anyone else. For example, before New York Correspondent John Tompkins began interviewing lottery directors, betting officials and sources on organized crime, he invested...
...wreck on the bottom. The barge was then submerged to a depth of about 100ft., where it was to cradle the salvaged sub. But there was a hitch. When the sub was halfway to the surface its damaged hull cracked in two. The after two-thirds of the craft, including the code room and the coveted weapons, slipped away. Only the forward third was successfully retrieved...
...other, nontraditional choices arrayed before me have become countless; the themes seem to get more varied every year. The designers and versifiers at Hallmark, Rust Craft, Norcross have seen to that. Hallmark alone comes out with 1,000 new designs for Christmas every year. There are special cards for black grandfathers and for soul sisters. Worried about ecology? A Chicago company sells 300 designs printed on recycled paper. Got expensive tastes? Bloomingdale's in New York City offered a reproduction of Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette at $183 for a box of 100. (It was sold...
...picture opens. Carrie -played with consummate craft by Sissy Spacek, who was so fine in Badlands-could not be a more hopeless case. She is the child of a religious fanatic (Piper Laurie) who is sexually repressed to the point of madness. Carrie does not even know about menstruation and when, in her high school locker room, she gets her period for the first time, she becomes hysterical. Turning to the other girls for help, she is instead turned upon and abused in what may be the most terrifying demonstration of the adolescent capacity for mass cruelty ever filmed...
Fortunately the Chinese respect the copyist. Traditionally, the masters of Chinese painting practiced the craft not only before but as a part of painting. Which brings to us and brings...