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Between radio jobs, there are respites of sorts. Gibson spends a year as a phony invalid in a convalescent home where he enthusiastically joins the shut-in life. "Until you've potato-raced against a congenital one-legged man in a sack you haven't potato-raced," he boasts after an invalid decathlon...
...save money now, the carriers have been wielding the personnel ax. Last year they laid off 9,000 people, and they expect to fire more this year. Pan Am announced last week that it plans to sack another 1,800 in the near future, including some pilots. The airlines have also reduced their service. Last year 658 flights-5% of the nation's total-were eliminated. Trans World Airlines, which lost $65 million, has replaced two 747s on its Chicago-Los Angeles run with one 707, at least for the winter season...
Shebib came off very well at a Sack-sponsored press conference, obviously still flushed with his victories in the Canadian Film Awards and a good set of New York notices. But he seemed far from the great white hope of North American Cinema, even if he has brought in his first film for $82,000 at the age of 32. When pressed, he expressed some concern for the economic restructuring of the film industry itself. But he did not feel that he or his films should propose alternatives. His attitudes reflected an art for art's sake creed. Though...
...mail that passed through each day during the Christmas season. Auger's wife took out the last of their savings and bought him a mod sleigh-a small plane with Santa Claus faces painted on its sides-and Auger flew into Santa Monica and Los Angeles with a sack over his shoulder. Local civic clubs would arrange for scores of kids to greet him: "The kids would all gang up around the airplane and I'd hand out all kinds of goodies." He did it for nearly ten years, but he was working as hard...
...litterbugs, threatens to devastate city hall at the head of a horde of kids all armed with packages of sticky candy and plenty of wrappers. Another mau-mau Ph.D. didn't even need a gang. He would just turn up at the OEO office with a crocus sack full of "ice picks, switchblades, straight razors, hand grenades and Molotov cocktails and dump it on a desk, claiming he's just taken the stuff off 'my boys last night.' " Concludes Wolfe: "They'd lay money on this man's ghetto youth like...