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...Segal lives thinking the odds are stacked against him. He's separated from his wife, he's in debt to a man named Spark (played by scriptwriter Joseph Walsh). So he's betting for survival--if he can control chance just for a minute, maybe he can get a grip on his life. When he finally wins he doesn't even want the spoils. A classic kind of gambler, which Segal and Altman do credit to, but it's nothing...
Although Castriotta indeed has health problems (she is now at Mass General), many tenant groups here have speculated that a problem of another nature forced her to opt for resignation. As the summer progressed, Castriotta found her iron grip on CHA operations slipping, in large part stemming from the July appointment of a pro-tenant commissioner to the five-member CHA board and the resignation of her ally Charles A. Ferraro, CHA executive secretary. His day-to-day running of housing authority activities in the last year led to charges by a State Community Affairs official that...
...dismisses talk of any actual schism. "E.L.I.M. is mainly a clergy movement," he observes. "There will not be any split, primarily because the lay people are not cranked up." Moreover, Preus insists, he is not going to do anything "to stir things up further." With the conservatives' firm grip on the seminaries, "there's no reason for heresy hunts in the parishes...
...transom of his yacht. Finally, Southern Cross's tender rudely ran an opposition boat off its practice course. As if all that were not enough, later this month the brash Bond could well upset the oldest racing tradition in Newport: the U.S.'s unbroken, 123-year grip...
...doubles as a Dallas Cowboy running back during the football season. "You got to be in good shape." The cowboys are all business as they wait their turn to compete, watching the action to pick up pointers or carefully dowsing their gloves and chaps in resin to improve the grip. "These fellows have changed a lot," says Frank Barrett, rodeo doctor at Cheyenne Frontier Days (attendance this year: 101,000) for 23 years. "I can remember when cowboys used to squat down and drink up before riding. I treated a lot more injuries then...