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...reason we play away is that we can't afford the darn referees," says Harvey. "It is much easier to drive a few miles over to some other school...
...gave them of Hurlburt's new job--"primarily to watch over and settle disagreements that arise between the Med School and the administration"--hardly measures up to the title. In Butler's case, Hall said last week: "John is a competent professional who [has been] in the job so darn long that he just got crowded in by all the trees. We said, 'Hey John, you deserve and have earned the right to step aside and catch your breath a little bit. Let us take over some of the things you've been handling and when you're ready...
Britain today has neither the built-in markets of the Commonwealth nor the vast used-weapon surplus that in the years after World War II made London the West's No. 2 arms exporter. Nor are the British as aggressive as their Continental rivals. "Britain has darn few salesmen," complains one English arms expert. "There's a lack of push among recent efforts, and morale is terrible." Nonetheless, Britain last year sold an impressive $1.5 billion in arms, accounting for about 8% of world transfers. Frigates, submarines and fast patrol boats went to Latin America. Iran bought more than...
...Director William C. Schneider, for one, vigorously rejected the idea that the problems might have been caused by sloppy manufacturing or lax quality control resulting from NASA's recent economies. Chief Flight Controller Eugene Kranz agreed, but then added: "We'll never know until we get the darn things down and look at them." There was one performance that no one could fault: a spider named Arabella, on board Skylab for a biological experiment, accommodated to space flight within only a day or two, learning to spin her complex geometric web in zero-G after only...
...handsome stone house he rents in Northwest Washington have darkrooms where he develops his own film. Says Baker: "He who retreats to the darkroom knows himself darn well. The solitude is good for you; it's a good antidote to public life...