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...Eight football defensive back as well as the 1967 N.C.A.A. golf champion. Spurning an offer from the N.F.L. St. Louis Cardinals, he turned golf pro four seasons ago, and has since won $111,151. Nevertheless, he considers himself still in a period of adjustment. "In football, you can get rid of your emotions," he says. "You can tackle somebody hard, for instance. But in golf the pressure keeps building, and you have to learn how to control...
Without any declaration of war, this flood of mostly old people, women and children can wreck India's precarious economy. What a splendid bonus to rid yourself of some 5,000,000 unwanted citizens and make your arch enemy, India, pay the price for your "internal" follies...
...burying their documents and insignia to conceal their high rank, Samsonov at first resists. Finally, apathetically, he allows one of his comrades to strip him of his own insignia. Suddenly he feels unencumbered and free?the freedom that rises out of total despair. Now he is anxious only to rid himself of his entourage and especially his orderly, Kupchik, who sticks close to him carrying the saddle blanket that belonged to the commander's abandoned horse...
...improvise active wheelchair games that are not only enjoyable, but good for letting off steam. Another details a system for teaching the use of public transportation. The same article deals forthrightly with a highly sensitive and seldom-mentioned topic: the intermittent and "very human" parental wish "to get rid of or lose their disabled child...
...easy it is to rid ourselves of the world's and our own shortcomings by blaming our troubles on someone else!" he said...