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...sponsored by animal importer Andy Koffman, managed nothing better than a puny 7-ft. 10-in. leap in the finals -- even though one of them jumped twice. Winner of the spirited annual commemoration of Mark Twain's yarn The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: Help Mr. Wizard, a homegrown Concord, Calif., bullfrog who jumped a quite respectable 19 ft. 3 in. The prize for the best alibi went to Koffman, who insisted that his big frogs, accustomed to the equatorial tropics, just got cold feet. Said he: "They're not used to the weather we've had here...
...such as SAVE, RESCUE and PANIC. The proliferation of environmental vigilantes took off in the mid-1980s at an astonishing rate. In 1984, 250 names were on the list of community groups regularly in contact with the National Toxics Campaign, a Boston-based organization that offers technical assistance to homegrown environmentalists. That list now has 1,200 names. The Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes, in Arlington, Va., which four years ago was helping 1,700 local groups fight contamination problems, is now in touch with about...
...constantly mixing with ordinary folks, thereby cultivating a keen sense of popular sentiment. Observes a senior Cuban official: "He is not like Honecker and Ceausescu, who lost touch with their people." And unlike the communist regimes imposed on Eastern Europe after World War II, Castro's revolution was a homegrown affair that quickly attracted the support of most Cubans...
...Moore's idea is to show Smith the sagging economy and spirit of Flint, a company town ailing from thousands of GM pink slips. Between fruitless visits to Smith's offices, Moore chats with Flint's elite (seen spending a fun, fund-raising night at the city jail) and homegrown celebrities (like game-show host Bob Eubanks, who tells a joke that manages to be anti-gay and anti-Jewish). He follows the rounds of a county employee evicting delinquent tenants; he talks with a woman who raises rabbits for pets and table meat. Strewn through the film are news...
AMONG SCHOOLCHILDREN by Tracy Kidder (Houghton Mifflin; $19.95). In this close-up view of a typical fifth-grade class, the Pulitzer-prizewinning author portrays living, breathing children, often overwhelmed by homegrown problems, and an outstanding teacher who scores an A for dedication...