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...that Americans are being held in Southeast Asia, families of the missing raised a dozen-man commando squad of their own-an underfinanced and overaged group of veterans from the Green Berets. Their improbable training center for an operation code-named "Velvet Hammer" was an academy for cheerleaders in Leesburg, Fla., near Orlando. Their leader was retired Lieut. Colonel James ("Bo") Gritz, 42, a former Army public affairs officer who served in Viet Nam and who now works for Hughes Helicopter in Culver City, Calif. Gritz (rhymes with beets) may not have been the ideal choice to run the secret...
...that the country hasn't changed-not the physical country, not hereabouts. The meticulously tended pecan groves stand on in the clean light; the well-grazed cows are still marching barnward in neatly spaced lines as if in rehearsal for their next state fair. The two crossroad towns, Leesburg and Smithville, show a little new paint on the old stores. But otherwise the stretch looks much as it must have all Jimmy Carter's life-no billboards alluding to his existence, no huckstering...
...Baker, it was. He spent his early years in Morrisonville, Va., a crossroads between Leesburg and Harpers Ferry. "It was primitive, no electricity," he says. His father Benjamin was a stonemason who died when Russell was five. The parallel with Thomas Wolfe, another lanky, literary Southerner whose father was a stonemason, is striking. Baker says for that reason he was unable to read Look Homeward, Angel until he was 45. "I heard those train whistles in the night, and they spoke of something else to me than the wonder of America." What they spoke of, he says, was trainmen...
...nonprofit engineering firm, sank $10,000 into equipping the basement of its Bedford, Mass., headquarters with showers, lockers, rowing machines and weight-lifting gadgets. Xerox Corp. runs seven exercise centers; the most lavish overlooks the Potomac River at the company's International Center for Training and Management in Leesburg, Va. The $3.5 million facility includes a putting green, a soccer field, a swimming pool, two gyms, four tennis courts, two racketball courts, a weight-lifting room and 2,300 wooded acres where joggers can gambol, often in the company of deer...
...course, not every employee is thrilled at spending the lunch hour sweating and straining, even at company expense. Only a fraction of eligible employees take advantage of the programs. Xerox's Leesburg facility is used by barely a third of the 180,000 people who yearly train at the center. New York's Cardio-Fitness reports a 15% dropout rate. Says one former client: "I find it mind-bendingly boring. I hate taking another shower and then putting on sweaty underwear. I hate spending an hour of my time jumping around over there...