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...year, ABC's Wide World of Sports features a bodybuilding context as a novelty. Even a Harvard student won some notoriety last year as an "artist sculpting my body." He won some title like "Mr. College America" after the initial winner was disqualified because he attended a regrigerator repair school. Although bodybuilders and competitive weightlifters are popular in Europe, Americans have little respect for those who throw the steel around...
...ugly that people could not help but look at him. Pumping Iron appeals in a similar vein. After the first few scenes of rippling flesh, one easily becomes immune to the bodybuilders' gross distortions and enjoys Schwarzenegger's charismatic overconfidence. A guy from the refrigerator repair school may have suffered disqualification in a collegiate contest, but another mechanic has made a movie that entertains, but does little else...
...passes, is a natural battlefield and ideal tank country. So far, Israel and Egypt have fought three wars there in only 20 years. Israel intends to hold this area with military installations. At Bir Gifgafa, 15 miles north of the Giddi Pass, is a giant forward base containing tank-repair shops and jet-fighter strips that could be relinquished. But closer to Israel, newer and more sophisticated airbases have been or are being built. Etzion, near Eilat, and Etam, about 30 miles south of Rafah, are already operational. A third base between them is still under construction...
...People may not be denied credit because of sex, race or national origin. A bank, finance company or other lender that buys an installment contract from a merchant-in legal parlance, a "holder in due course"-may not demand payment for defective goods that the merchant refuses to repair or replace...
...acquire skills to satisfy their own creative urges or help them survive-plant-growing and plumbing, for instance." Colleges and universities will have to adjust swiftly to this developing educational market -even if tenured professors of medieval English have to be retrained to teach ceramics and auto repair...