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Barns echoes the common complaint of meager wages as a reason for his departure. As a petty officer first class, he was paid $11,000 annually. He also cites the shrinking number of trained sub men, noting that because of the scarcity he would have been assigned to sea duty in the next five years of his re-enlistment rather than just the next three. Moreover, he claims that the Navy is doing a poor job of instructing its personnel. "There is no on-the-job training," he says. "When a problem arises, they always...
This play is a rite of passage, a picaresque odyssey of a man who moves from his bucolic farm in Cross Roads, N.C., to jail and to a big Northern city where the demonic "subway rolls, the sub way rolls," and after 13 years comes back home to the fragrant land of his first sweet memories and desires...
...Films are even more lucrative. The Supervixens, produced in 1974 for $213,000, has grossed over $14 million. Deep Throat, produced in 1972 for about $40,000, has grossed approximately $600 million from the film and its "sub-industries"--t-shirts, bumper stickers, sequels, and sexual aids...
Adds Bishop Tutu: "Our struggle for liberation and freedom in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa was led by people trained in Christian churches." Tutu believes the deepest reason for this lies in African character. Says he: "For the African, the spiritual realm is real, and something that is materialistic and atheistic like Marxism, whilst it may have a superficial attraction where there is a lot of oppression and injustice, cannot satisfy the deep longings of the African psyche...
While she has no specific plans when she graduates, Spencer hints that she has a special desire to have children. "I want six tall boys--enough for a basketball team with one sub. Or maybe eight--for a heavyweight boat," she laughs...