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...present and accounted for: the elite military unit; the brutal training program; the sadistic topkick; the misfit recruit, seemingly unfit for hazardous duty--especially since the rest of the troops distrust, even despise...
...that point, 16-1 with the Cubs since then. "They've scored a lot of runs for me, and they were in first when I got here," Sutcliffe said humbly after clinching the half-pennant with his 14th straight victory. The new Cubs all seem appealing. Matthews, their topkick, acted unaware that his third game-winning hit in two days had moved him to the front of the league. Sandberg appeared surprised with himself and his most valuable season. "All I did was play hard," he said. "I didn't know...
...movie houses or taking the TV shortcut, has watched the celluloid Wayne pass through three stages of life. In the '30s, he was the outspoken, hair-trigger-tempered son who would straighten out if he didn't get shot first. By the late '40s, he had graduated to fatherhood: topkick Marine to a platoon of shavetails or trail boss to a bunch of saddle tramps. In True Grit his belt disappears into his abdomen, his opinions are sclerotic and his face is beginning to crack like granite. Audiences now recognize him as a grandfather image, using booze for arterial Antifreeze...
...Artist Billy Al Bengston at the Ferus Gallery. Billy Al does canvases with titles like Rock, Troy, Tyrone, Sterling. One called Fabian consists of large master-sergeant stripes against a background of orange and blue-grey doughnut shapes. It is social comment, Billy Al explains: everyone wants to be topkick. At the Heritage Gallery, a lumpy figurative painting by Rod Briggs lets out wails every time a viewer's shadow falls upon its built-in electric...
...with a house system that keeps same-age students together for eating, sleeping, studying. Tuition hits $3,000 a year, but boys easily slide into Princeton, where Lawrenceville has more freshmen than any other school. Bigness is solved at Indiana's Culver Military Academy (840 boys), now a topkick prep school, by insisting that "discipline is essential to the learning process...