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...York City with his bride Dede, a nurse, Robertson was trying to succeed in the electronics-components business when his religious calling overtook him. By his account in Shout It from the Housetops, a miracle produced a buyer of his interest in the company. This led Robertson to detour to a seminary; he was ordained...
...first-year law student at Harvard, Moore is pursuing his original goal, but only after a detour on the field. For six years, Moore played professional football, first for the Cincinnati Bengals and then for the Wisconsin Green Bay Packers, in a career that included a trip to the Super Bowl. Not bad for an ex-Division III center who describes his college football experience as "no big deal...
...convinced the others to let us off first at Teheran; but, after Rutger began extolling the virtues of one particularly fine American institution located in the desert outside Reno, our companions demanded a time-consuming detour to Nevada...
...government-owned South African Airways flew 100,000 passengers, mostly white officials, businessmen and tourists, to and from the U.S. last year. The proposal by some Senators and others to rescind the country's landing rights in the U.S. would inconvenience such travelers, probably causing a half-day detour through European cities. Quite quickly, however, small airlines in Swaziland or Botswana could expand, with South Africa's help, to fill the void...
Trueheart said he had planned to stay for only three years when he took the IOP position in June 1983. He said that he saw it as an educational detour from his "career path" of journalism...