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Chafee fits the traditional mold of the Northeastern liberal Republican. He favors national health insurance, but also supports plans to drill for oil off the New England costs and a freeze on real estate taxes. His position as Secretary of the Navy under former president Nixon might hurt Chafee's chances, especially because the closing of Rhode Island navy bases in 1973--after Chafee left the government--seriously exacerbated the state's unemployment problems...
...major objective is to teach, drill and introduce the squad to the intracacies of the sport," he said...
...characters--the Nazi, Dr. Szell, a dentist who makes a practice of extracting information from people by using the tools of his trade, most notably a high-powered drill, in highly dubious fashion, is Laurence Olivier--are interwoven in an intricate but readily comprehensible story which moves through France and Uruguay and finally reaches its culmination in New York. The graduate student, played by Dustin Hoffman, is an aspiring marathon runner who jogs in Central Park before and after classes, dreaming of Olympic stardom; his developing skills at endurance running turn out to come in quite handy--hence the title...
Southern newspapers routinely relegated announcements of black births, deaths and marriages to special Jim Crow pages. In 1956, the Wilmington, N.C., Star went to press with a frontpage photo of four Marines who were to testify in the court-martial of a drill instructor charged with brutality. When an editor noticed that one of the witnesses was black, he ordered an employee to chisel the Negro's image out of the press plate. The paper appeared with a ragged white space where the black face had been...
...structural underpinnings. Rassias' aim: to start students talking in a new language within minutes after the first class begins and to keep them "communicating" at a rapid rate-never mind, at first, accent, vocabulary or minor mistakes in grammar. Each first-year course requires two hours of class drill a day plus four hours a week of traditional lab work...