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Defense Linemen Rick Bryan Oklahoma, William Perry, Clemson Don Thorp, II; Reggie White. Tennessee; Linebackers--Ricky Hunley, Arizona; Jeff Leiding, Texas; Ron Rivera, California; deep backs--Russell Carter, SMU; Jerry Gray, Texas; Terry Hoage, Georgia; Don Rogers, UCLA; Specialists--kicker--Luis Zendejas, Arizona State; punter--Jack Weil, Wyoming...
...have in the air, and Don Taylor's flight across the North Pole this summer was gratifyingly dull. Taylor, 64, is a former World War II fighter pilot who built his tiny, all-metal experimental plane several years ago from a plan by retired Aircraft Designer John Thorp. He flew around the world in the little ship, which weighs 1,500 lbs. empty and has a wingspan of 21 ft. 11 in., and set a number of speed and distance records. He decided to donate the plane to the Experimental Aircraft Association at its convention in Oshkosh...
Music tours are among this year's biggest attractions. Dailey Thorp Travel, a Manhattan agency that handles only musical vacations, has had a 30% increase in bookings over the past year; virtually all of its nine European tours are sold out, even though they are all first class at premium prices. A popular novelty this year is what Dailey Thorp calls the Cultural Blitz Tour, a three-day weekend of cultural events in Europe. These tours, the agency's Don Fannon explains, "appeal to a lot of professional people who can afford to take one or two days...
...Uston read Beat the Dealer, a 1962 book by Mathematician Edward Thorp, the "father" of card counting. Uston, a statistics, mathematics and computer buff, was fascinated, and while still serving as a pillar of the West Coast financial establishment, began imagining himself a buckaroo blackjack hero. For six years he worked feverishly to acquire the necessary skills, practicing rigorous memory drills and doing complex statistical calculations. In 1974 he went to Harrah's Casino in Reno to put himself to the test. He won $3,000 and never looked back...
...Austin is also bringing the awareness of national audiences to local activity as they follow the presses that follow the poets to their new home base. Poets Paul Foreman and Foster Robertson moved from San Francisco, where they published the ten-year-old poetry journal Hyperion, and opened Thorp Springs Press, which has published about ten titles so far. The opening of their off-beat bookstore at 803 Red River Street was a major literary celebration that offered a weekend of readings by scheduled and non-scheduled writers, a home for in-print and out-of-print small press publications...