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...number of fraternal and corporate entities support the effort. There are, for example, the U.S. Jaycees and Jayceetes. Every representative tall, trim, impeccably groomed. $2.1 million. The Distributive Education Corporation of America--that's high school kids who sell things, and are hoping, their leader tells Jerry, to "develop a civic consciousness which allows our members to use their marketing skills for worthy projects. We really believe," he adds, "in the future of America." The Roller Skater Rink Operators Association of America, who have been hosting some $3 million worth of skate-a-thons. The Brunswick Corporation, (which, according...
...trying to preserve their strength. The staff puts sheepskin rugs in their beds to warm their bodies, now slowly turning colder. Although they refuse medication, the men do ask the nurses to give them liniment rubdowns to soften their parched skin. A barber comes in once a week to trim their hair and, if they are feeble, give them a shave. The prisoners are weighed daily and always anxiously demand to know the exact figure, then pass the word immediately to their waiting I.R.A. comrades, who spread it everywhere. Joe McDonnell, 30, dropped from 196 lbs. to less than...
...Still as trim and erect as he was in his days as a Marine test pilot, J. Lynn Helms, 56, the new Federal Aviation Administrator, climbed aboard a little two-engine Cessna, throttled down the runway at Washington National Airport and gave chase to a Boeing 727. He made six breathtakingly close passes at the larger aircraft, almost as if he were knocking MiGs out of the skies over Korea. Last week, several days after that acrobatic performance, Helms disclosed what he had decided as a result of the flight. By 1984, he announced, a new electronic warning system would...
Today's artisans can trim metal to within one ten-thousandth of an inch, using mechanical cuts more precise than the strokes of the finest brain surgeon. During a grueling four-year apprenticeship in vocational classrooms and on the shop floor, the toolmaker absorbs the principles of solid geometry and learns to think in three dimensions. He is expected to read labyrinthine blueprints as well as be aware of the exact levels of heat and pressure that will cause various metals to buckle and break...
Meanwhile, B.N.O.C. has now offered to trim the cost of its crude by $2, to $37.25 per bbl., in order to deter customers from seeking even cheaper deals elsewhere...