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...using your bed for a trampoline and pillow fights with your sister were now suddenly unimportant, no, downright boring. Little League tryouts were in four weeks, and you didn't make it last year because you didn't work hard enough, and aw heck if the pros can start...
...increased spending for social services. Budget-minded Jimmy Carter could only grin and bear it. But Rosalynn got in a political punch of her own. Alluding to the battle between Kennedy and her husband over national health, she said: "While I'm not here today to discuss the pros and cons of various national health insurance proposals-although I understand such a discussion is shaping up-the commission came out firmly for the inclusion of mental health care under any national health insurance plan...
There are amateurs and pros among writers too. One of the most influential pros is Ed McBain. He did not invent the police "procedural," but his 87th Precinct books have attracted several imitators, especially in Europe. The most famous is the Martin Beck series by the Swedish couple Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, who made their Stockholm cops into moody eccentrics and stopped their plots for digressions into psychology and politics...
Even as Connally made his big move, his chief competitors were also in Washington, using a meeting of the Republican National Committee as the occasion to rush through a series of cocktail parties, private chats with party pros and even gentle courtesy calls on each other. Eight announced or likely candidates visited the capital in four days...
Such is the view from behind the face mask of the Dallas Cowboys' Roger Staubach, one of the most calmly efficient quarterbacks in N.F.L. history. At 36, he is at the height of his skills. Roger the Dodger, the U.S. Naval Academy scrambler who came into the pros ten years ago with a pronounced tendency to gallop away with the ball, has long since matured into a sharp-eyed passer whose forte is picking apart the secondary, not romping down the sidelines. To avoid destruction, Staubach goes to ground with a hook slide that would do a major league...