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...same sobering advice might be given to Cabinet officers. They too have been lured into ego-embellishing travel by their fleet of Air Force JetStars. If Reagan really does intend to give his Cabinet a decisive role in his deliberations and also insists that they set their departments in order, he should keep his Secretaries in town. They can go to dinners or to breakfasts and pray, although there are hazards in these activties...
Louisiana's gain, so to speak, has been Florida's loss. Since the Cuban refugee crisis, two-thirds of the U.S. Coast Guard fleet has been redeployed to patrol the Florida coast. In addition, smuggling has become more risky in Florida, where antidrug enforcement efforts have been stepped up and tough new laws against marijuana smuggling include minimum mandatory sentences of up to 15 years in jail...
...monsters; Sendak's night creatures and Arnold Lobel's Homeric tales of friendship between Frog and Toad, Dr. Seuss's Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, Richard Scarry's Best Mother Goose Ever, and the omnipresent Snoopy and Woodstock are leaders in a procession that could populate a fleet of arks. Still, if anything appears with a tail or a mane, a small human is usually waiting in the wings. It is those child-heroes and heroines who become the first extraparental guides to the world outside the front door, and the main competitor to television's inanities...
Harvard, erringly rearranged into a man-to-man defense, could not keep up with the fleet-footed Friars and saw the two-point margin expand rapidly. After only five minutes of play, the cagers were suddenly down by ten, after ten minutes down...
...slept three to a room and there were feet everywhere," says South Carolina Tailback George Washington Rogers, 22, of his impoverished childhood in rural Duluth, Ga. For the past four football seasons, Rogers' fleet feet have been everywhere. He led the nation in rushing with 1,781 yds., sufficient mileage to earn him the 46th annual Heisman Trophy as the country's outstanding college football player. With the bulk (225 lbs.) of a fullback, the 6-ft. 2-in. Rogers ran for 4,958 yds. during his South Carolina career to become the fourth alltime college rusher...