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...Sunnyvale, Calif., the mood inside the executive offices of the local Lock heed plant is one of spacious melancholy, like the first-class ballroom on the Ti tanic after most of the passengers had jumped ship. At nearby Mountain View, apartment owners are offering $50 to tenants who find friends to fill the va cancies. As jobless blue-collar workers and engineers have used up their un employment benefits, the rolls of food-stamp recipients in San Jose, Calif., have grown from 9,000 to 37,000 in the past year. Unemployment in the Se attle area...
...quite. Grey was driven terrifyingly close to breakdown on occasions, as this moving account indicates. But he did contrive to keep a secret journal (on which the book is based), and he evolved other ways of keeping mind and body together. Locked up in his own home, forbidden by his guards to have anything but a change of clothing and a few books, he devised his own crossword puzzles, invented games and immersed himself in self-taught yoga. By the end of his 806-day confinement, Grey had also managed to teach himself enough Chinese to read the slogans smeared...
...Monday, Smith gave the young woman bus fare and she left, leaving behind the luggage, which she said she didn't want. Smith and another visitor picked the lock of the attach case...
...like tumblers falling in a lock," he recalls. "I knew what a good safecracker felt like. From then on I never doubted my ability for a moment. So many actors say, 'Well, I'll give it a chance for a couple of years.' But you can't give acting a chance. It gives you a chance." Scott took every one he got. After graduation he went to work at Stephens, a women's college in Columbia, Mo., teaching a course called Mastery of Western Literature just so he could get to act in school plays. The class was a farce...
...freshman bouts are concerned, be sure to circle the unlimited match between Oscar DePriest and Sandy Tennant on your program; it should be the best. Two real bulls, who hit with complete abandon, will lock horns and the lumpy mat at the IAB should have numerous visitors...