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...closet. Behind his eyes always lurks the image of a gamble, regardless of whether it is a sure thing or a long shot. His firm sense of style and order gives him mastery and status, but it's the danger of the game--the inherent risk in even the smallest throw of the dice--that actually keeps him alive. Watching a horse race, or hunched over a craps table. Bob's eyes narrow in intense concentration and his stolid middle-aged body coils up youthfully like a spring. The ostensible plot of the film, the heist of the Deauville Casino...
Like the university, Oxford has a population of 10,000. It is the fifth smallest town in the U.S. to serve as the seat of a capstone state university. There are only seven full-time undergraduate black professors; Meredith himself says he is reluctant now to praise an institution with so few black teachers and students. Money is one problem, and black professors and administrators are often lost to larger schools. The rural backdrop is another, as is the absence of a sizable middle-class black community. The Black Student Union and the Associated Student Body have recently merged...
...than they have been in at least a decade, often below the cost of production. The year's expected harvests of corn (8.3 billion bu.), wheat (2.8 billion bu.) and soybeans (2.3 billion bu.) will be the largest in history, and yet U.S. farm income will be the smallest in real dollars since Depression-ravaged...
...represent important therapeutic gains. As a result, to push their sometimes unneeded new products, drug companies pour their energy and money into advertising and promotion. Last year $215 million worth of advertisements were placed in the 150 leading medical journals, and that represents only the smallest part of the typical drug promotion campaign. Hundreds of millions more go into snazzy exhibits at medical meetings, glossy brochures presented to doctors by company "detail men," and "educational" videotapes for physicians...
...marked by maritime achievement. Bill Dunlop, 41, a former truck driver from Maine, sailed his 9-ft. ⅞-in. sailboat, Wind's Will, into Falmouth after a 78-day voyage across the Atlantic. Dunlop broke a record set only two weeks before for an Atlantic crossing in the smallest boat. Ashby Harper, 65, an Albuquerque headmaster, became the oldest person to swim the English Channel. "I think my swim shows that there are plenty of things people can do when they are over 65," said Harper, who made the 30-mile swim...