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...crew of the submarine are an unappealing lot. They are first encountered at their home port, St.-Nazaire, in Occupied France, taking a final orgiastic gulp of life before setting out on Atlantic patrol. The time...
...least 36 states, including eight of the ten most populous. Democrats also gained control of eight additional state legislatures, upping their total to 36. No wonder that when one top adviser to President Gerald Ford was asked for his reaction to the election results, his response was to gulp down a bicarbonate of soda. Two other White House aides tried to come up with some heartening words for reporters, then glumly agreed on the obvious: "Just say that we took a beating...
PREACHING ECONOMY. "Theology books used to be about $4.95," says the Rev. James Butler, 59, of the First Presbyterian Church in Bismarck, N. Dak. "Now they are $7, $8 or $10. You have to gulp before you buy." Because collections have not kept pace with inflation, Butler has been forced to cut the church's projects and staff to a minimum. When the parsonage fell into disrepair, the Butlers themselves repainted it and pasted up new wallpaper. "The estimates from contractors were just too high," recalls Mrs. Butler. "We didn't want the church to have...
Beer is rugby's battle cry, social lubricant and anesthetic. It replaces the breakfast missed by hitting the road at 6:30 a.m., the Gatorade other athletes would gulp over halftime strategy sessions and, for Harvard's "A" ruggers, lunch...
Golden-Oldies. On ABC in recent months, a viewer could renew acquaintance with all kinds of golden-oldie situations. There was Kirk Douglas playing a worm turned psychopathic killer in Mousey; Robert Gulp as a bourgeois daddy forced to defend suburban hearth and home from a predatory adolescent gang in Outrage; Gulp again as one of a group of men who must work while their women anxiously wait in Houston, We 've Got a Problem (namely a space shot gone awry); Gloria Swanson doing a dotty old lady thing with her friends the Killer Bees; Natalie Wood and Robert...