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...nice set of wheels. A happy few make the jump from big man on campus to major-league pro. Most start with salaries in six figures -- not bad for a 22-year-old who, chances are, did not earn enough credits to graduate. In the popular imagination, the great pros are elevated to a status they share with only a handful of movie stars and Kennedys. Theirs is that realm beyond celebrity: American royalty...
Instead of becoming symbols of the nation's drug problem, athletes, with their enormous prestige, could become part of the solution. Many established athletes are responding to the call, speaking out more vigorously against drug abuse at rallies and on television. Last week a number of prominent pros, including basketball's Julius Erving and baseball's Dave Winfield, filmed commercials urging kids to say no to drugs. A striking commercial currently on the air features Mercury Morris saying to coke users, "A phone call could help you. It took prison to help...
...Fanning journeyed to Sacramento to ask C.K. McClatchy, whose chain of newspapers now numbers a dozen, for a tide-over investment. Instead, McClatchy bought the News by assuming its debts, while letting Fanning retain a 20% interest. Then McClatchy dispatched a 21-member team of business and editorial pros from his Modesto Bee to spend four months trying to pump life into his new purchase...
...acerbic and deeply conservative commentator for the ABC television station in Los Angeles. Herschensohn's foreign policy acumen is often praised, lately by former President Nixon, who starred at a fund raiser for him in Newport Beach. Herschensohn commands the allegiance of many hawkish Republicans, but G.O.P. pros fear that he is the sort of somewhat scary hard-liner whom the incumbent Cranston has trounced in three straight Senate elections...
Prisons used to have two purposes. One was reform; but we know prisons don't reform prisoners, as the enormously high rate of repeat offenders attests to. If anything, inmates become better criminals in prison, learning the tricks of the trade from the pros...