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Sokolof, born in Omaha in 1922, has always enjoyed center stage. Starting tap-dance lessons at age six, he soon won first prize at a children's talent show. He still recalls the drill. "Left, right, shuffle, shuffle, tap, tap," he says, his body swaying with the remembered rhythm. At nine, he made the first of his many career changes, taking voice lessons and singing at weddings and bar mitzvahs. After high school, he took to the road for four years as a vocalist with a succession of bands, performing in ballrooms and nightclubs across the country...
...damage. But the oil fields must be cleared of unexploded mines before workers can even begin laying pipelines for the tons of seawater the fire fighters will use to cool the burning wellheads. And if the damage to the wells is sufficiently severe, fire fighters may have to drill diagonal relief wells in order to fill them with mud or cement, a capping process that can take months and cost as much as $10 million per well. By their estimates, Kuwait may still be battling oil blazes two years from...
...Orleans when an unexpected visitor entered the room. "You are killing my people!" the woman shouted, turning over tables and ranting that advertisements and promotions aimed at minority smokers are immoral. After 30 seconds, order was restored, and the stunned p.r. staff learned that the outburst was only a drill. Zuke had paid a New York actress $5,000 to stage the disturbance to help event organizers learn how to handle the real thing. "I felt this would be a very dramatic way for me to make points about the issues that face us in the tobacco industry every...
Although this is Bates' first year of doing the show, she is well ahead of the rest of the group. The petite, youthful-looking blond studied tap and ballet all through her school years. She choreographed her college drill team in Arkansas and moved on to a brief stint in modeling while studying for her master's degree in early-childhood education at the University of Central Arkansas. Her stage work stopped when she began teaching kindergarten. But her dance training and modeling experience make her the exception rather than the rule in this production; most of the other cast...
Next week the President is expected to unveil a national energy policy that will favor increased use of natural gas and nuclear power and stepped-up oil exploration -- including a controversial proposal to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But the plan is almost certain to ignore any significant steps to promote conservation. Most notably, although automobiles, buses and trucks account for two-thirds of U.S. oil use, the program is expected to shun the two most effective means to put the brakes on fuel consumption: a hike in the gas tax and a higher federal fuel-efficiency standard...