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...surprisingly, the drill before a panel of judges can be excruciatingly tense. Take the demands of the paragraph loop, for instance. The maneuver begins with the competitor pushing off, moving backward on the outside edge of the right skate. In that position, moving slowly, the skater traces half a circle leading into a loop, gliding out to complete a full circle. He then changes to the inside blade edge and carves a second circle and loop...
...classroom for years. I felt presumptuous; these were adult lives I was confronting, not data, and their faces told me more than I wanted to know as glimmers of interest struggled across features usually stolid, blown out, confused, or pugnacious because of the Blackboard, the Teacher, the Drill Sargeant, the Foreman. For me, that night the niceties of clinical description blurred into the broad strokes of oppression...
...begin a pilot-training program in which women will fly C-130 Hercules hospital or weather-reconnaissance planes and T-39 trainer jets. The Air Force has women in fatigues maintaining and repairing missiles, airplanes and weapons. The Army has women chaplains, helicopter pilots and tank drivers and 136 drill instructors. The Navy has anti-submarine warfare technicians, line handlers on tugboats, airplane welders, bulldozer operators and a deep-sea diver. All recruits go through rugged basic training, learning to shoot and strip rifles (just in case they ever have to in an emergency) and slog through mud, with full...
...industry, a traditional bastion of Republican strength, is bitterly opposed to the bill. Oilmen argue that a price cut in crude oil would reduce the incentive to drill wells in search of new sources of supply. Reagan has urged the President to veto the bill. At week's end Ford's closest advisers were still not certain whether the President would turn down the bill, thereby repudiating Zarb and angering millions of Americans who drive cars or heat their homes with oil. The odds that Congress would overturn a veto are too close to call...
...that note, Bob Richards, wearing his brown mesh Rindge Coach T-shirt, screams "Elevens!" and watches as Russell and about 25 other hopefuls reassemble for the final drill of the day's basketball practice...