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This is indeed the Army of the eighties, though, with the stereotypical personalities of all the old service comedies transplanted into new bodies. The ferocious drill sergeant is Black; the macho commanding officer and the hard-bitten, street-smart ex-con are female. And as well as turning boys into men, the New Army turns girls into women. We know Private Benjamin has become a real woman because she has her first orgasm ("Now I know what it is I've been faking all these years!") with a French gynecologist she picks up while on leave...
Uniforms, salutes and the diverse other courtesies will also help cadets if they decide to join the drill team. The class will drill on the athletic fields only occasionally--"you'll get less in one year than in a single day at basic training"--but there is the "strictly extracurricular" possibility of drill team. Or even color guard. "If you really enjoy it, you can learn to get out there and twirl those fancy rifles and all," he says...
...exaggerations miss the point. For all his drill-field discipline, Bryant is not John Wayne with a whistle, a link to vague frontier tenets presumed lost. The most closely scrutinized coach in America, he could not get away with being a bagman for postadolescent jocks even if he tried. Nor is he a helmet-bashing maniac who views Saturday afternoons in the stadium as the moral equivalent of Dday. He is, at times, treated a bit too royally by those who vest football with more importance than it deserves. But he is also scorned too savagely by those...
...areas of wildcat exploration, rigs are in many cases going deeper and becoming more expensive. Probing for gas deposits, which are usually found beneath oil strata, is particularly costly. Exxon this year spent about $42 million drilling a gas well in Mississippi that was 23,154 ft. deep. The results from wildcat wells, though, no longer match those enjoyed in the halcyon days of great American oil discoveries. The output of oil, or an equivalent amount of gas, discovered in new wildcats has declined from more than 350 bbl. per ft. of drilling in the late 1940s to less than...
...Larry Meckel. "It could end up being the second or third largest producer in the world." But as with the OPEC nations, the country is husbanding its resources by holding back production. Farther down in South America, efforts are now being concentrated offshore, with Exxon and Shell preparing to drill around Tierra Del Fuego, where Charles Darwin once sailed on the H.M.S. Beagle, and the Falkland Islands. A promising area offshore of the heavy oil deposits of Lake Maracaibo is not being tapped because both Venezuela and Colombia claim the region. Politics also hinders Brazil's explorations. The government...