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...Twirl Competition begins, Andrea Snow struts her way, in sequins and top hat, through some vigorous choreography set to Puttin ' on the Ritz, while an emcee, in her best beauty-pageant voice, announces, "Andrea is five years old, and she's looking forward--[pause]--to entering kindergarten." A little later, Carol, leader of the Mira Costa drill team, starts gnawing at the half-inch nails on each of her eight ringed fingers. "I'm so nervous my stomach hurts," she confides. "But if you become nervous," she tells her charges between hugs, "I'll shoot...
...recaptured during the five-day convention, where the audience chooses a winner from among both the celebrity and the amateur speakers. At one of the numerous parties, Cleo Dawson, who will not give her age but is recognized as the eldest I.P.A. member, sat beneath a flower-bedecked hat and shouted encouragement to various contestants. "Hello, honey," she yelled, "you were wonderful last night." Turning back to her table, Dawson got serious. "There are no second-raters, not here. They're all artists." Her favorite lecturer? Says Dawson: "Myself...
...every spectrum. In a Fu Manchu mustache, Namath played Elvis Presley to Staubach's Pat Boone. But they came to be stuffed and mounted together and cried along with Simpson during the inductions at Canton, Ohio. As Namath searched the sky for a hangdog man in a houndstooth hat, the late Alabama coach Bear Bryant, he also shared the honors with Pete Rozelle, a football commissioner who once insisted Joe quit the saloon business. For some such mischief never revealed, Bryant kicked Namath off Alabama's team for the last game of the 1963 season and the Sugar Bowl. "Coach...
...sell. Says pollster Renato Mannheimer: "Conflict of interest is something that matters only to that part of the Italian public that supports the opposition anyway. Those who vote for Berlusconi are entirely indifferent to it." Trying To Generate Interest Paying clients interest on checking accounts may be old hat in places like the U.S., Britain and Spain. But when France's mutual group Caisse d'Epargne announced last week it would begin doing so, it was heralded as revolutionary. Caisse d'Epargne's promise to pay 0.5% to 1% interest on its roughly 4.5 million current accounts make...
Since Peluso, 33, became CEO of online travel firm Travelocity in December 2003, her most visible achievement may be its irreverent ad campaign featuring the Roaming Gnomean abducted lawn fixture from North Carolina with a conical red hat. In the real world, despite competition from Expedia and Orbitz , the Sabre subsidiary has also proved unforgettable, posting $4.9 billion in travel bookings for 2004 and $500 million in revenue. Next on her itinerary: Travelocity Europe and two joint ventures, Singapore's Zuji and Japan's Tabini...