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That leaves just half of last year's team still available. But two sophomores, Dave Benjamin and Southern Rhodesian Clive Kileff, are expected to take up some of the slack...
...these separate acts are interspersed and punctuated by the subdued gesturing of Oleg Popov, who is celebrated as one of the world's great clowns. A thoroughly trained circus performer, he can walk the tightwire or the slack wire; he is both animal trainer and juggler. He takes no pratfalls, and he is not the sad flopsy-mopsy fopsy that most U.S. clowns make themselves, but it is difficult to see why he is so renowned. Hailed as a star, he is really little more than a mildly engaging filler...
...only two of the seven, the Times and the Daily News, consistently make money. And by publishers' standards, the timing of New York's strike could not have been worse. Only a few months after the papers got back into print, they faced the summer doldrums, that slack vacation period when both circulation and advertising fall as shops close, Broadway burns dimly, and cliff dwellers by the thousands quit the town...
...DOWN UNDER. Healthy in New Zealand, Anglicanism in Australia is a faith gone limp and slack with too much success. In New Zealand it is by far the nation's largest church, and in Australia it can claim a healthy 33% of a growing population. Yet Australia still looks back to England for its archbishops, and has been sluggish in ministering to postwar waves of non-British immigrants. Now Anglican hegemony is threatened by immigration-fed Roman Catholicism. Admits one Aussie priest: "We've been lazy, resting on our oars. But the nasty things that will be said...
...Argentina's exports. But since then, overproduction of beef by British farmers has forced a sharp cutback of nearly 20% in British buying. Fortunately for the Argentines, other European customers and newly opened markets behind the Iron Curtain and in Egypt, Israel and Portugal are taking up the slack...