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...miles out, coming in with seven horses." That sends Tracy Robison, 16, leaping onto a sorrel mount. He wedges the horse behind a mound of sagebrush and keeps as still as he can. Gil Crawford, 58, dives for cover behind an embankment, grabbing a yellow rope that will release the trap gate on the quarry...
...service penalty. "Sometimes during those first two years people find themselves disillusioned with the military, or their career goals change", says Major Steven Wallace, assistant professor of aerospace at MIT and instructor of the seniors. "We don't want to take kids straight out of high school and rope them into the Air Force without giving them a chance to find out if they like it." More than 50 per cent of the students in MIT's program decide to drop out before junior year, Wallace says, a figure he estimates is slightly higher than the national average. He theorizes...
Between the calorie counting and aerobic breathing, the yoga and the yogurt, the rolfing and the rope jumping, exercised Americans will admire their improved chassis in 300 million sq. ft. of new mirrors. The reflections of these new Adams and Eves glowing radiantly through the steam rising from the hot tubs are provocative indeed. They portend even more than they posture...
...engulf the frail expedition, but fortunately, the storm veered out to sea. Entering the harbor at Swatow, the crew had another bad moment when a Chinese gunboat approached, only to pass by harmlessly. The unloading process went smoothly as villagers snipped packets of Bibles from the submerged barge with rope cutters supplied by the smugglers, then carried them to waiting bikes, buses and trucks (Open Doors clandestinely had supplied $75,000 to hire the vehicles). But about four hours after the departure of the Michael, an army patrol turned up unexpectedly in Gezhou village. The patrol stormed the beach, arresting...
...York City's Circle Repertory Theatre, is a near- newcomer to cinema. Earthy and sensible, heavy sleeves rolled up to heavy elbows, her Elinore can plow a field and scrub the laundry and milk a cow; she knows how to ride and she plans to learn how to rope. She is a frontier woman, pure and simple; she understands the various businesses of life and how to get on with them...