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...fears may be exaggerated. At least three states -New York, New Jersey and Arizona- have had similar laws on the books for half a century without such sinister effect. As San Francisco Supervisor Alfred J. Nelder put it, "Kids are human beings and have rights...
...peak, too. The audience let loose repeated barrages of bravos, shouts and applause. Even Andy Warhol was seen to touch palm to palm. The Bolshoi stars were surprised and somewhat unnerved. "They didn't know who to send out first for curtain calls," said Gilbert Hemsley, a production supervisor for Hurok Concerts, which arranged the Bolshoi visit...
Things are no better in Fairbanks, where a tent manufacturer has delightedly watched sales leap from $45,000 in 1972 to $240,000 last year. At the Fairbanks Rescue Mission, Supervisor Bud Retynski carefully steps over three dozing men as he goes about his work. Says he: "We regularly have 15 or 20 sleeping on the floor...
...baseball until he realized his dream of being a basketball center was impossible because he just didn't have the height. That was while he was in high school in Alvin, Texas, a small town 25 miles from Houston. Ryan, the son of an oil company supervisor, still lives in Alvin with his wife Ruth and three-year-old son Reid, and has no intention of abandoning his unpretentious country-boy life, despite a salary of more than $100,000 a year. A duck, deer and quail hunter in the offseason, Ryan complains that even Alvin...
...supervisor strolled casually over to one of the secretaries. "Do me a favor, will you? Stop by the bank on your lunch hour to pay my phone bill-and still get back on time." Coolly, with only a flicker of hesitation, the secretary answered: "Look, I love working with you, but I feel very strongly that people in secretarial positions should not be asked to do personal favors for their bosses...