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...bearings again in the wake of the near tragedy that befell Apollo 13 and the recent inquiry assigning blame for it to U.S. industry and NASA alike. For its humor and irreverence, Brian O'Leary's tale of what it is like to be an astronaut dropout is also worthy of note...
...black state assemblyman, unseated King Adam gently, avoiding harsh frontal attacks, building productive political alliances, and working, working, working. An ebullient native of the Harlem district that he will represent-unless Powell makes good a threat to run as an independent and succeeds-Rangel is a high school dropout who eventually earned a law degree. When he quit school in 1948, he joined the Army. During the Korean War, he earned the Bronze Star for leading his men from behind enemy lines to safety though he himself had been wounded. Discharged in 1952, he re-entered school, was an honor...
...seemed a shoo-in for the nomination. Then along came George Brown, 50, a four-term Congressman from Los Angeles, a dropout who had dropped in, strictly a modern man. Like his mentor Gene McCarthy, Brown is so relaxed that at times it is hard to tell whether he is utterly exhausted or just doesn't give a damn. "I have no charisma," he groans. Yet he does, despite all that nonchalance. Heavy sideburns halfway down his face, a budding second chin that gives him a self-indulgent look, virile, thick, dark eyebrows and steady dark eyes, a calm...
Senator Gaylord Nelson, the Wisconsin Democrat who chaired the subcommittee looking into JOBS, found shortcomings and abuses in the current system. Some badly conceived JOBS programs have had dropout rates of 70%, or even 100%. The program has not reached black teenagers; unemployment among them is more than twice that of white youths. Most of the 25,000 firms that signed up with N.A.B. to support JOBS are big companies, but the employment opportunities among smaller businesses have not really been tapped...
Rutted Life. The man who becomes helplessly entwined in the search for Lundquist also proves to be an unexpected dropout. A 35-year-old professor of American history with a set of well-thumbed, uncontroversial lecture notes, Aaron Bell seemed passively content with this rutted life. A one-dimensional wife and a father and grandfather wasted by moral lethargy and televiewing did not make him appear out of the ordinary. But by the time he locates Lundquist living in the primitive, unwashed exile of a remote Appalachian cabin, Bell has also discovered himself-or what he calls the Lundquist within...