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...sets off for a day's campaigning. The heat, brilliant and soaking, comes soon after first light. On the edge of a town, the caravan shudders to a stop. The candidates pile onto the flatbed back of a pickup truck, smear on dabs of melting suntan cream and flip the switch of a cassette player. To the scratchy strains of martial music, they start downhill, making a short tour and ending up under the spreading roots of the giant ceiba trees, planted to provide a parasol of shade over the baking town square. The little parade passes by rusting...
...touched off another minor furor. Faced with a repeat offender in a pickpocket case, Friess proposed a novel way to set the sentence. He offered the defendant the chance to toss a coin: heads for 30 days, tails for 20. The coin came up tails. Friess's flip approach piqued the district attorney. But the judge would not budge...
...Their kick-back style, Frisbees, and flip-flops not withstanding, most [U.C.-San Diego students] are exceptionally serious students. They just happen to prefer beaches as well as books...
...swimming and extensive physical therapy brought her all the way back to the 1980 Ivy League Championships. There she qualified for Easterns, but luck was against her. At the Eastern, she reinjured her knee doing a flip-turn but still managed to finish her race and qualify for the National Championships...
...assaults the eye often benumbs the brain, but now all the networks are doing the same. Overdoing it, in fact. Arledge thinks his imitators' gadgetry is more distracting than his own. The anchorman still sits there quietly, but over his shoulder his surroundings have taken on a dancing, flip-flopping life. A machine called Quantel inserts a picture in a corner of the screen, zooms it up to full screen and back down; a computer called Chyron flashes numbers and text on the screen. Such zippiness is a long way from the paleolithic days of newsgathering in the 1950s...