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...result of the staggered start is something on the order of a demolition derby, especially in the novice and youth events, where coxswains are less experienced. As the shells jockey for position on the turns, near collisions are the rule--rarely is a cox willing to cede the right-of-way if he thinks he can keep his place...
Chou and two other seniors run a second disco enterprise, which produces parties complete with disc jockey music, a sound system, and a light show...
Then came a sequence of "whiles"-a while as a door-to-door encyclopedia and Bible salesman, a while as a plumber's helper in Oregon, a while as a disc jockey in Fort Worth, and so on. Willie was forever setting off for new destinations with everything he could call his own loaded into his 1946 Ford: Martha, the three kids they soon had, some furniture and an "Oklahoma credit card" (a length of hose for siphoning gas from roadside tanks). A few years of this and Martha began heading for a destination of her own: divorce court...
Christine is long past her "hippie stage." At the University of Redlands, where she studied history and music, she was rushed by a sorority that plundered fraternity houses for jockey shorts. But she ducked the sisterhood in favor of serious music and a semester studying in Salzburg. She frankly sees the exposure of Miss America as a means of deliverance from the grueling jobs that helped her work her way through school. "I want to be with a major symphony," Christine declares. "Cocktail waitressing isn't going to get me there...
...City, N.J., beach like a couple of locals. Joining them at the surfside home of Caroline's maternal grandma, Margaret Kelly, was Princess Grace. Instead of a little Saturday night fever at a neighborhood disco, Caroline and Philippe opted for a Gay Jitterbug. The horse, that is, whose jockey, Steve Cauthen, was presented the winner's cup by the newlyweds at the nearby Atlantic City race track...