Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white countrymen hold him responsible for what is happening to Rhodesia. "There is a widespread feeling," says a local mining executive, "that, in retrospect, UDI was a waste of time, money and lives. If we had settled for a gradual transition eleven years ago and Smith had started to train black successors back then, we would not face such a problem now." But a few hardliners, like Leonard Idensohn, who heads the small, far-right Rhodesia National Party, criticize him for giving in now. "Smith and his 49 traitors in Parliament have sold us down the river," says Idensohn fiercely...
During the bad years, if you took the "D" Train up to the Bronx and the Stadium, you could look forward to ducking firecrackers and waiting to see if Steve Hamilton would throw his famous Folly Floater (a high arc-lob which one day sent a bad-tempered Cleveland Indian literally crawling on his belly back to the dugout after he had whiffed three times on it; this the same day Bobby Murcer hit four consecutive home runs in the Next Mickey contest and Ray Fosse got hit by a cherry bomb which came flying from the second deck after...
...addition to the Limon company, the Brandeis Expressions Series hosts Margalit Dance Theater November 12-14 and the Claude Kipnis Mime Theater November 19-21. A local train pulls out of a dungeon under Porter Square around 6:30 giving you more time than you want to see the Brandeis campus before the show. After the performance there's no train back after past 11, so take a warm blanket if it's cold...
...conversational ingenuity sort of petered out after a study of the Olympic athletes displayed in the the sports section of a newpaper and a resort to numbers, as they jotted down the scores of various games for me. The train pulled into their station during a game of canasta, and they trooped off. Janev rushed back momentarily, to shake my hand and present me with a left-over tin of meat; and the conductor showed up to throw me out of first class, now that my escort was gone...
...radio console. Parked outside are eight patrol cars, a two-tone green 1976 van and a shiny motorcycle. Last week Turner was cruising about in a helicopter on loan from a federal civil defense program. The sheriff has also spent half of his grant money to train his staff, which has grown from three to 17 deputies-including two blacks...