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...have come since 1982 to their parlor in a converted textile mill. In Florida, where the Seminoles began bingo in 1979, the 1,800-member tribe this year raked in $4.2 million from three joints. "We used to make trinkets," says Tribal Chairman James Billie, a former professional alligator wrestler, "but we didn't really have the marketing skills to make a go of that...
...engineered an appointment as Ambassador to NATO, as far away as possible from the gathering storm. "He was a cool and careful planner," noted Speech writer Robert Hartmann, who tussled with him for influence at the Ford White House. "As a politician, he recognized and respected fate; as a wrestler, he was ever alert for an opening to take fate by the forelock...
...pragmatic politician and the latest in a line of Ford alumni advising Reagan, he may provoke some criticism from the far right. Dealing with the Gordian knot of Middle East politics and coping with the inflammable situation in Lebanon, however, are tasks far more suited to a wrestler than an ideologue. Rumsfeld's first move will have to be an attempt to get a hammer lock on the shifting complexities of the situation in Lebanese "reconciliation talks" in Geneva...
Three other sports hold promise for Crimson stars. Heavyweight wrestler Jim Phills '83 is a strong contender for the Canadian squad, though he has yet to establish a ranking for himself up north, having wrestled only in the United States in the last four years. Andy MeNerny '83 is considering taking a run at the U. S. team...
What is this place, this center of international attention, worry, amazement? Who are these people, admired but not loved, who have made technology their art and commerce their religion? The characteristics collide: democracy and hierarchy; formality and chaos; a cramped infinity; cooperative free enterprise; ceremony with ruthlessness; the overfed wrestler, the shrunken tree. Above all else, the insularity of the group tied to a fear of being isolated...