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...Unofficial Conversion. Miller also decided to return to Esalen, where the residents had taken over the maintenance and service chores to offset the center's financial deficit. He pitched in as a combination waiter, bartender and supply sergeant with the exalted title of "wine steward." Team spirit worked miracles. So did the New Testament, which he began to read regularly, eventually undergoing an intense-though unofficial -conversion to Christianity...
...pretentious allusions to existential phenomenology that could have come straight out of Sartre's Nausea. But the most worldly aspect of Hot Springs is as a testimony of a man remade; it also functions as a superior form of public relations. Stuart Miller, former literary intellectual and wine steward, is currently an Esalen vice president in charge of program development. He is also the editor of the Esalen Publishing Program, of which Hot Springs is a product...
...Royal Navy ship's steward of Bulgarian ancestry, Mintoff graduated from Oxford with degrees in architecture and engineering. He campaigned for the June elections, in which his Labor Party won a narrow 28-to-27 parliamentary majority, on a vaguely neutralist platform. But he cannot hope to retain that majority for five years unless he can do something dramatic to win the voters' confidence-like filling their pocketbooks...
Greyhound also wants to bring more affluent passengers to the bus. Kerrigan is expanding a VIP service, which at some terminals enables riders to check their baggage at the ticket counter, leave their coats with a steward, travel nonstop for up to 200 miles and arrive at their destination with nearly the speed of air travel (counting the drive to and from the airport). To save suburbanites the trouble of traveling into the city to catch a bus, Greyhound built satellite terminals near mass transit systems on the edges of Chicago and Cleveland-an idea that it plans to extend...
...their own, Leila and her friend waited until the plane had completed its climbout from Amsterdam. With a war whoop, they leaped from their seats, pulled out the grenades and a pistol, and raced forward to the first-class cabin. There they ran into an El Al steward and an Israeli security agent. As the pilot put the Boeing 707 jetliner into a sharp bank in order to throw the hijackers off balance, passengers overpowered the girl and bound her with neckties. Meanwhile the Israelis fought the male skyjacker in a desperate hand-to-hand battle for possession...