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...privates to the officers and chaplains, digs. "Each shovel I scoop out means I might save an arm," says Private Gregory White, 20, of Los Angeles, the 82nd Airborne. "The next shovel means I might save a leg." The initial hole is called a "hasty" or a "run and dive." With each passing day, the hasties are dug farther down, so that by now they are armpit deep and flanked by sandbags. This is low-tech war of the most vital kind...
When Rudenstine emerged from the Ritz-Carlton, the Kremlinesque committee had him shield his face and dive into a limousine like a mobster about to be arraigned...
Much of this, of course, is a continuation of a trim-down trend that has been going on for years and has been accelerated by the economy's recent nose dive and the drying up of ad revenues. But the crunch has become more urgent because of the budget-busting Persian Gulf crisis, which has cost the networks as much as $3 million combined per week (though less than half that in recent weeks). "What it means is no budget or people for anything else," says one CBS correspondent. "God help us if another big story breaks...
...didn't dive as well as we did in practice, but for the first meet, we picked up the points, and that's what counts," freshman Rich Beukema said...
...corridors but in hardscrabble Vermont farm country. A slippery statehouse politician named Ed Cobb tries to persuade Henry Briggs, a retired major- league relief pitcher, to run for Congress on the Democratic ticket. Briggs, a born-and-bred Vermonter and no fool, knows this is like taking a high dive into a damp dishrag. But they talk. And talk. And Briggs and his wife Lillian argue. And argue. She's an earache. When he was in baseball he played around, and now she's getting back at him. Talk is plot is literature...