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...last month finished turning over all its personnel files to the women's new units. At the same time, the Army has reclassified 136,000 jobs, opening them to women. Thus there have recently been a myriad of female firsts on various bases: the first female parachute rigger, the first turbine-engine maintenance woman, the first female drill sergeant. Actual combat is still barred to women, though that too may change if the Equal Rights Amendment is passed...
...That's poverty level ashore," says Colvin. But he hastens to add that it can offer a more than comfortable living afloat. Provided, of course, that the cruising man is more than a competent sailor. He has to be something of a "boatbuilder, mechanic, electrician, navigator, sailmaker, rigger, doctor, lawyer, pilot and philosopher...
...jobs followed as a logger, well rigger, powder monkey and ranch hand. In between, he got deeper into crime. He was convicted in Nebraska on a robbery charge, and while serving that sentence, was brought to trial for a Minnesota gas-station holdup in which he was accused of shooting the attendant. "Coming in for 40 years." he told TIME Correspondent Joe Boyce recently, "I felt, well, if I was going to do anything with my life, I'd have to do it here. I always enjoyed reading, so I turned to writing...
Sometimes the thieves' ingenuity has been almost as quaint as their plunder. It has been reported that in several cases they hired helicopters to pluck their booty from the roofs of houses and barns. Robert Eldred of Dennis, Mass., returned from a trip to find that his square-rigger ship vane had vanished. Six months later, it was traced with the help of an antique dealer to a banker's house in Florida. Eldred flew to Florida and, taking two extra seats in the plane, returned home with his antique. Before Eldred had time to remount the weather...
...Forever, a part he took "for the bread." He admits: "All I am in the movie is bad." He has since directed his first film, Drive, He Said. He regained his footing as an actor in Five Easy Pieces, in which he played a gifted pianist-turned-supergypsy oil rigger. About his role, Nicholson expounds: "I have a very strong political propagandist feeling about my work. If you can change the way people feel and think, then you're a long way toward solving their problems. Pieces undermines traditional middle-class behavior...