Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...escape artist," he explains. Over the years, however, he has given shelter to young aspiring magicians, taking them in as apprentices and serving as a foster parent. "Kids keep showing up at my door with knapsacks on their backs," Randi says, "offering to work for nothing if I help train them." Today he shares his secluded, cluttered Florida house with his cat Charlie and Jose Alvarez, 20, his latest protege. It was Alvarez who, in a dramatic appearance at the Opera House in Sydney last March, convinced many Australians that he was a channeler for a 35,000-year...
...written on Robert F. Kennedy's death are monument to the insufficiency of words to capture very much of the horror of the event. There is something very nearly obscene in our lust for facts--interview with the Los Angeles ambulance driver or the engineer who drove the funeral train. And there is something both noble and terrifying in the passion of thousands of Americans to be part of the public mourning, shoving so hard to get near the funeral train that two are killed by an express speeding in the other direction...
...release, that can come when the sun goes down. She is the tall, windblown woman standing solitary at the end of the platform, trying to fathom the signal lights and waiting for the next express. Now that could be the Midnight Special, or it could be the Mystery Train, but, whatever comes through, Toni Childs is going for a long ride...
...largely unconcerned about what shorter working hours will mean for their careers. While officials contend that females have equal opportunities, women live with no such illusions. True, fields that are still male preserves in the West have long been open to equal employment in the Soviet Union. Women are train conductors and engineers, garbage collectors and construction workers, but often they receive less pay than their male colleagues. "It's not written in any law that women's salaries for the same work will be lower, but that's what happens," says Elena Weinstein, 35, who worked as a translator...
Soviet authorities were peeved by Reagan's invitation to the refuseniks. Said Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Petrovsky: "This is hardly aimed at improving mutual understanding between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R." In Leningrad two dissidents who had been invited to Spaso House were questioned by the KGB until their train left for Moscow...