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...cultures are diverse enough an meeting people from different parts of the even of the world, has made him see that country," adds Duncan. "He's a volleyball player, and a very good one at that, but volleyball players are a dime a dozen in southern California gone to UCLA, he might have made okay, but he certainly wouldn't have been a star...
...Some 12,500 retired military personnel have been drawn to the city by its mild climate (year-round golf), recreational opportunities in the Rocky Mountains and well-stocked PXs. "In Colorado Springs," says Garland L. Anneler, chairman of the United Bank of Colorado Springs, "generals are as common as dime-store clerks in other towns...
...launch two satellites. The first worked, but a military communications satellite launched Saturday suffered an apparent power failure and drifted uselessly in space. The astronauts are also expected to spend time toying around. To demonstrate the laws of physics to schoolchildren, they will be videotaped playing with such dime-store goodies as yo-yos, spinning tops, a Slinky and a windup mouse...
...days in their Pittsburgh laboratories. "I had no idea what was up," says Zue. The invitation turned out to involve 48 hours of rigorous testing with hundreds of voice spectrograms. At one point, the Carnegie-Mellon team tried to trip up Zue with the phrase "A stitch in dime saves nine," expecting him to misread dime as time. But Zue, having grown up in China, had never heard the old maxim. He passed the test and made believers of a generation of speech scientists...
...domination of this running improv show, his co stars pull off a remarkable success time after time findfors in her few on-screen minutes, plays Professor Traub as more than just a wacky writing teacher: she is a kind of Paper chaselaw professor, seemingly about to utter. "Take this dime and call your mother Tell her you will never be a writer...