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...playoffs. They were beaten by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first playoff round, but this year the Colts hope to stay at the dance past midnight. With a solid defense and an offense led by Quarterback Bert Jones-considered by many to be the best young passer in the pro ranks-they might well succeed...
...yearned to be Vice President. Though he remained on various lists till near the end, his liberal image and stodgy stump style foredoomed him. Richardson missed a White House call notifying him that he had been bypassed and, as he tried to return the call, learned from a passer-by that Dole had been chosen. If Ford is elected, Richardson could become Secretary of State, but he concedes that "I may be looking for a job in November." The opposition that he evokes from the conservatives in the Republican Party makes him an unlikely prospect for a future national ticket...
...department-store windows traditionally are posed in attitudes of stiff propriety. But a countertrend is under way at some fashionable stores, spurred by young window dressers who group their figures to enact little immobile dramas of sex, bizarre fantasy, even suicide-just about anything that will make a jaded passer-by stop and look. Explains Candy Pratts, 26-year-old window designer for Bloomingdale's in New York: "You've got to reach anybody who walks...
...head has an atomic bomb cloud forming over it. The stone carvers work under the alert eye of John Fanfani, 52, who is the son and nephew of two carvers who came from Italy in the 1920s to devote their careers to the cathedral. According to a legend, a passer-by once asked one of the early carvers why he was working so painstakingly on the back of a figure, since it would never be seen after it was installed. He replied, in the great medieval tradition of cathedral builders, "God will...
...nerve of a sugar-futures trader, the painstaking craftsmanship of a calligrapher and the face-to-face charm of a successful encyclopedia salesman. He must win people's trust in order to clean them out. Where other criminals can hope to muster enough luck to succeed, the passer of bum checks relies on finesse and self-confidence honed to fine arts...