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...have been, as Anwar Sadat would have believed, the hand of fate that brutally tore him from the world stage. That same hand narrowly bypassed Sadat's most attentive pupil and long-chosen successor, who was at the President's side when the bullets slammed into the reviewing stand. Hosni Mubarak, 53, Egypt's Vice President since Sadat picked him for the post in 1975, emerged from the assault with no more than a bandaged left hand as a memento of his narrow escape...
...suburban Arlington, Va. He assembled a squad of smart, youngish devotees more ruthlessly conservative, if that is possible, than he. After weeks of new-boy floundering, Helms was taken in hand by the late Senator James Allen of Alabama. Allen taught him all the parliamentary angles, and the pupil waded eagerly into the minutiae of procedure...
...Bottin, 22-a pupil of Baker, 30, who is in turn a disciple of Smith-used bladders for different effects in The Howling. Thousands of these little bags were glued to the actors' faces, which were then covered with masks of false skin. At the proper moment, the sacs were inflated, and the faces seemed to grow as big as beach balls-about the size, that is, of the average movie werewolf's face. Bottin also devised fanglike teeth for his werewolves, rubber incisors that stretched when the actors pressed little triggers with their tongues...
...make a good Cockney, or make a very convincing climb up the slippery slopes of the English language. More important, she does not have anything like the fire, the almost feral drive of a good Eliza. Not only was Higgins a great teacher; Eliza was also a great pupil. That "squashed cabbage leaf he picked up in Covent Garden was in fact made of gold...
Similar testimonials fill the files of a growing band of ex-pedagogues, school admissions officers, psychologists and social workers who call themselves educational counselors. For a fee that ranges between $250 and $600 a pupil, finders act as matchmakers, trying to bring together pupils and private schools that seem right for each other. "I'm like the handicapper at a race track," cracks Boston Counselor Robert Parsons. "I'm trying to get kids into a race they...