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Future growth depends upon a solution. Dave King, 54, was laid off last week from his toolmaking job in Troy, Michigan, only two months after finding the position. He fears he will have to take a truck-driving job at $7 an hour, less than half his former pay. "The older people like me are really in a bind," he says. "The younger ones can get retraining. But who's going to retrain you if you've got only five or 10 years left?" The depth of the need for some coherent system of retraining was demonstrated recently in California...
...instance, Higbie is interested in how exactly stories of the war with Troy were composed, a subject few others study with her particular focus. "As best we understand it at the moment," says Higbie, "these are poets who wrote without pencil and paper, in a world that wasn't so intensely literate as ours...
...haven't thought much about it because I have to concentrate on this job here. ((Wallace is a fund raiser for Troy State University in Montgomery.)) And I'm in a lot of pain all the time. I wasn't in much pain when I was Governor, because I was younger and stronger. I'm older and weaker now. I just got over a bad kidney infection...
Turner agreed to spend half his time in Los Angeles while Fonda's son Troy was still in high school there. When Fonda decided she would quit drinking a year ago, Turner announced he would too. She has given up making movies for | now. ("Ted Turner is not a man that you leave to go on location. He needs you there all the time," she says.) He has given up hour-to-hour management of his company. He now eats much of the health-food menu her cook prepares and has lost 10 lbs. They designed and decorated together...
Stone uses a suspect, mongrel art form, and JFK raises the familiar ethical and historical problems of docudrama. But so what? Artists have always used public events as raw material, have taken history into their imaginations and transformed it. The fall of Troy vanished into the Iliad. The Battle of % Borodino found its most memorable permanence in Tolstoy's imagining of it in War and Peace...