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...citadel of red tape, and served previously in the U.S. Army (as captain) and the Congress (as an aide to Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough). Now head of a private business and educational consulting firm in Virginia, he funds NATAPROBU's $3,000-a-year budget from his own pocket. "Some people putter in the garden," says Boren, "some jog around the neighborhood; I orchestrate NATAPROBU...
Defensive end Jim Gallagher spent most of the last Harvard-Yale game chasing a series of Harvard quarterbacks out of the pocket and on to their backs. He is not big (6'2", 190), but like the rest of the Yale line, he is enormously aggressive...
...members of the orchestra make their living from the Philharmonia; most of them are music teachers, or solo performers. When a concert turns a profit, they share it; more often, they con tribute from their own funds to make the concerts possible. (One member gave $500 from his own pocket to meet the rent for a performance last year...
Marcello Mastroianni plays an aristocratic weakling (Franco Nero having been an aristocratic obsessive, and both being typical heroes for narrative films) confined to his opulent family mansion at the end of a dead-end street, watches people on the street through a pocket telescope. This utterly point-of-view technique separates him from the film's dramatic action and makes him a moral observer, murmuring "do it" or "no, no" as the blacks who inhabit the rest of the street perform the actions...
...vast improvement over the pre-Tonis conditions. When Tonis took over the police, the men were carrying a variety of outdated pistols. In his first month, Tonis tried firing one pistol, but it jammed and he had to remove the clogged bullet from the gun with his pocket jackknife...