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...rights. Hefner, a vice president of dad's Playboy Enterprises, says she came to the convention from Chicago as an alternate Carter delegate "to lobby for the minority platform on abortion and try to make a difference on women's issues." That is exactly what she did, dawn to dusk and gavel to gavel, while many another delegate was hopping around town. "People who don't know me thought I was here to play," she said, "but I came out of a sense of commitment." Only when it was over did Christie finally cut loose-at Xenon...
From then on, young Ramos remembers, "I never had a moment to myself." Almost every day he trained like Rocky, running eight miles each dawn through the shadowy streets, then working out for three hours in the evening at a gym. "This is only the beginning," he says. "I'm already poppin' the gray hairs. You got to be a 24-hour man in this business. I'm only 19, and damn, there are so many things I'd like to be doing." In a rare burst of youthful candor he says, "First thing...
...when the sun came through the lace curtains of my room in the Hotel Ukraine. Summer sunrise is very early in these latitudes, 3:30 a.m. or so, which is a fine and relaxed time to feel a city and watch the building fronts glow as the dawn brightens...
From the snorting mimicry of airplane engines at kick-off to lyric invocations of the beauty of the sky at dawn and dusk, Peterson holds his audience in a trance. The most appealing of his acting skills is his ability to endow Bishop with both vulnerable humanity and dare devil courage...
...junta immediately disbanded Congress, imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew and moved rapidly to crush resistance by students and workers, who called for a general strike in protest against the "fascist coup-makers." Tanks and troops also moved into southern towns where some 5,000 armed tin miners were blocking the roads and vowing to fight the coup "until the ultimate consequences." There were ominous signs that the junta had adopted the chilling anti-terrorist tactics pioneered by Argentina's military bosses. As in Argentina, a number of activists simply disappeared after being kidnaped by plain-clothes thugs...