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...promoting fights involving Ali, Foreman and Frazier. Last week Captain Frank Rush, commander of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lexington, and Don King, the flamboyant boxing promoter, got their acts together. They jointly presided over one of the odder events in boxing annals: six professional bouts, all fought off Pensacola, Fla., in a ring planted squarely on the Lexington's 910-ft. flight deck...
...examples of light-energy abuse. No one suggests doing without a 1,000-watt hair dryer, or tells how to turn dishwasher switches through the drying cycle and open the door for air drying (the new models have an "energy saver" switch that does the same thing). Roy Stark Pensacola...
...common man. As a Congressman, Pryor worked anonymously in nursing homes for several weeks and later made public his findings about how old people were being mistreated. Campaigning successfully for the U.S. Senate in 1970, Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles walked a circuitous 1,003 well-publicized miles from Pensacola to Miami, chatting every step of the way with prospective voters about their problems. Last year, while running for Governor, Mississippi's Cliff Finch caught attention by spending a day a week working at such jobs as grocery-store clerk and bulldozer operator...
Jean Smith Pensacola...
...sergeant, and was raised at airbases in the U.S. and England. Though he says he knew he was homosexual at the age of twelve, he did not act upon that knowledge till he was 30, when he finally got up the nerve to go to a gay bar in Pensacola, Fla. Though Matlovich feared he would be raped by frenzied homosexuals, the bar turned out to be a civilized place filled with airmen, blue-collar workers and middle-class professional men. He lost his virginity that night to a government civil servant. Says Matlovich: "I had never held another person...