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...result is a program that will offer staff members a telephone-counseling service and in-house workshops. The former will be provided by Child Care Systems, Inc. Employees can call a toll-free number for help on issues ranging from how to find a last-minute baby-sitter to how to judge a prospective child-care center. For working parents unsure how to find suitable care for their children, C.C.S. will provide information tailored to their pocketbooks, locations and special needs. In each workshop, some 20 employees will share information and hear advice from experts on the care of children...
...Saturn rocket and Skylab programs. Golf was his passion, and he became convinced that "clubs really weren't designed to take full advantage of the principles of physics." In 1975 Duclos took a leave from his job and began to experiment with club improvements in his home workshop. He first invented a putter with a slot and a white line in the center that helped golfers position their eyes directly above the ball. To finance the manufacture of this "slotline" club, Duclos ^ took out a $30,000 second mortgage on his home. His initial designs did not catch...
...question is 'How do we translate thisconcern [for electoral politics] into the academicenvironment?'" asks Thornburgh. "What is the bestway? A course? A workshop? What kind faculty wouldteach them? Is there room in the curriculum...
Lest readers and the Internal Revenue Service get the impression that author and friends were purporting to conduct a professional writers' workshop, Buckley notes that the lockers contained a variety of entertainments and diversions. Among them: a cassette library of movies, including The Wackiest Ship in the Army and The Caine Mutiny, tapes of David Niven reading his memoirs (The Moon's a Balloon; Bring On the Empty Horses), and a model of the Titanic that for some unexplained reason was glued together on deck during a heavy rainstorm. Such behavior might be attributed to the decision to pack...
...chance encounter with an Ezio Pinza record changed his life. Thrilled by Pinza's rich, robust tone, Ramey later enrolled in a summer workshop at the Central City Opera in the Colorado Rockies. "This was fantastic!" he exclaims. "There was everything -- dancing, acting, singing -- all combined in one art form. I decided I would give it a shot." In time, he found his way to New York City, where he supported himself and his wife Carrie as an advertising copywriter for a book publisher...