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...patrol regulations, and passed with the second highest score. This qualified him for the skiing test: Jim had to demonstrate every technique of skiing, from stem christie to parallel to snowplow on a very steep slope, and ski every kind of snow--packed, powder, ice and crud--at high speed. He passed the skiing test with a low score, but not too low. Of the 65 people to tried to join, Jim's total score placed...
...dirt-poor Indian farmers eat meat with their rice and beans. In Guatemala, small planters who 18 months ago could barely afford bicycles splurge on motorcycles, TV sets and modern farm equipment. "I now own a Datsun truck, and my son is studying engineering," says one. "Enough of eating crud with the chickens...
...extolling the virtues of white-run Rhodesia and claiming that the nation is as free a state as one can find in Africa. The only mystery about this article is not why The Times ran it, but what is the real name of the author of this pile of crud? Is "Alexander Harrison" really Daniel P. Moynihan? or is it Nixon? This latter guess is where the smart money is going...
...hard-core sex was obviously the hard core of the film's structure. Cut the crud and all you have left is a lot of tedious - not to say infantile - intellectual foreplay. Abduction cannot be taken seriously enough to laugh at, and natural curiosity about links with the Hearst case should be sternly stifled...
...Sinking a 5,000-ft. well costs about $125,000. If a driller hits, he still can be disappointed by the mixture of steam and briny water that hisses to the surface. Sometimes it is too cool to use efficiently; often it is laden with minerals and impurities that "crud up" turbine blades and even clog the bored hole itself. The steam can, in fact, be cleaned, but unfortunately the process is expensive. Its heat can be transferred to a non-corrosive gas and fed to the turbine, but that is inefficient...