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...three prep schools, Mike became a good enough football player to be offered an athletic scholarship at Arizona State, but he turned it down ("I played the game for fun"), tried a few courses at the University of Southern California, then took up speedboat racing. A crack-up a few years later tore his back muscles, dislocated both hips and persuaded him to try another vocation. His father, newly elected Governor, was concerned. "Dad kept asking me, 'What's your future going to be?' " he recalls. "I'd tell him, 'I'm a late...
...Daddy's reign of terror turned up fairly quickly: Robert Astles, a white, British-born onetime road-construction foreman who advised Amin on the uses of repression as well as on his public relations buffoonery. Kenyan police arrested Astles after he had crossed Lake Victoria by speedboat from Uganda. Astles once was close to Milton Obote, whom Amin ousted as President in 1971; in time he turned adviser to Amin and soon became a main architect of the dreaded State Research Bureau (SRB), the Gestapo-like organization that was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Ugandans murdered during...
...country like the U.S. is not like a speedboat on a lake. It can't veer suddenly to the right or left. It's like a large ship. There's continuity to its course. There's continuity between our Administration's foreign policy and the policy of our predecessors and, indeed, between them and their predecessors...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Princeton freshman speedboat Andy O'Hara outsprinted Harvard's sensational Bobby Hackett in the anchor leg of the 800-yd. freestyle relay to give the Tigers their sixth straight Eastern Seaboard swimming and diving championship here at the Brown Swim Center Saturday night...
Other families are falling behind on their bills. Richard McClur, 23, and his wife Pamela, 22, owe two months' rent-a total of about $200-on their four-room cabin. They have made no payments since November on their car, speedboat and motorcycle. They feed themselves and their four-month-old daughter on $138 a month in food stamps, supplemented by pork from hogs raised by Pamela's father...