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...exposition, quiet as a Sunday-school teacher's lesson, is over. The storyteller, in the fullness of his craft, has struck, and the spell is on, as surely as it was when Homer conjured up a fleet of ships on a wine-dark sea bound for the walls of Troy...
...patented bull-elephant yodel. As for Bo's acting, she sucks in her stomach to look pretty and chews her cuticles to suggest fear. Alas, all the displays of Bo's body cannot divert attention from the ludicrous ineptness of the enterprise. Nothing breaks a tumid erotic spell faster than giggling...
...that nobody goes into tool-and diemaking any more. For the past 20 years, policies of the Federal Government have encouraged everybody to get a higher education whether it was right for the individual or not. Now we have a lot of college graduates who are barely able to spell their own names...
...believes the problem is solved. Many young men and women undoubtedly are joining up because the civilian unemployment rate is a high 7.3%?which means, ironically, that success for the Administration's economic program could spell trouble for its military manpower plans. If decent civilian jobs are available for high school graduates, there will be fewer volunteers for the armed forces. Reagan's plans could require adding an estimated 200,000 people, perhaps as early as 1985, to the 2,094,000 who were in uniform last Jan. 1. Worse, low re-enlistment rates have left all the services...
...been a long dry spell, nearly three years without a tournament victory, for Golfer Jerry Pate. So when the drought was finally broken with a win in the Danny Thomas-Memphis Classic, Pate made up for it, striding right off the 18th green and diving into a lake in celebration. Pate, who won the U.S. Open in his rookie year (1976), had another good reason for taking the plunge: the victory made him, at 27, the youngest golfer ever to earn more than $1 million in tournament purses. "I hadn't won in so long, I wanted to make...