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...example this time was Jeremy Thorpe, 47, for nine years leader of Britain's gadfly Liberal Party and at one time one of the most enterprising figures on the British political scene, a bowler-hatted Etonian who would slog through department stores and cow pastures to greet voters and was a Fleet Street favorite. Yet for more than four months, Thorpe had been politically besieged because of allegations that he had been involved in a homosexual relationship in the early 1960s-a charge that, it gradually became clear, either Thorpe or some of his well-meaning but inept friends...
...drivers and 136 drill instructors. The Navy has anti-submarine warfare technicians, line handlers on tugboats, airplane welders, bulldozer operators and a deep-sea diver. All recruits go through rugged basic training, learning to shoot and strip rifles (just in case they ever have to in an emergency) and slog through mud, with full packs, to cadence-counting chants ("Standin' tall and lookin' good/ We ought to be in Hollywood . . .") The service academies are preparing for women in the classes that will be admitted next summer. West Point will take in about 100 women cadets, the Naval Academy...
...outdoor vacation that requires no legwork at all is Wagon Ho!, a threeday, 5-m.p.h. slog through Kansas over an old wagon trail-in authentic replicas of covered wagons. For about $800, a family of four rides a prairie schooner driven by a hired hand, with stops along the trail to investigate the Smoky Hill River or the surrounding hills. The weekly wagon trains pull out from Quinter, 325 miles west of Kansas City, travel 110 miles round trip and, claims Wagon Ho!, never come within sight of a road or house...
...Angeles also is locked in sweaty and secret bargaining with its unions. Said City Negotiator Eugene Kidder: "It's been a tough slog. This year they're flexing their muscles...
Part of what made Lund so extraordinary was his driving vitality. He missed college that first year, but when drugs brought him to his first period of remission, he began to slog his wasted body through an incredible training regime, running ten to 20 miles a day, never doubting that he could enter the university and make the team. He did both. The disease hung on. Remissions were achieved each successive time by a more dangerous and exhausting use of drugs. With each reprieve, Lund began running again, rebuilding weight and stamina. By his junior year he was a soccer...