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...exuberant festivities suited a man who has long entertained great expectations. The son of a country parson in South Australia, Hawke was 15 when he first boasted that he would one day become Prime Minister. Throughout a long and highly visible career, he has enjoyed the image of an accomplished but eminently human character: in his past are both a Rhodes scholarship and a drinking problem. At Oxford he wrote a thesis on Australian labor relations and swaggered into the Guinness Book of World Records by gulping down 2½ pints of beer in 12 seconds...
...decision on whether or not to play the game will be made sometime this morning, after Coach Alex Nahigian and others survey the field here, and the Northeastern people check out the half-synthetic, half-real turf at Parson's Field. If they play, the first game should start at 1 p.m., at, of course, a location yet to be determined...
...about it. Until you have to do something about it. And then you have to do it yourself. With no help; take this body and its dreaded power and rid it of its mistake; or go away and watch it swell and give birth to another parson you have to take care of, and never have a life of your own until it takes care of itself; or give it away and always wonder when you see kids on the sweet who look like you if it's yours or might have been...
...sense of individual independence. "There's a way of life disappearing," says Orson Rollins, 69, a retired rancher who now operates a service station in Craig, Colo. "We never used to lock our doors. That's gone." Says Postal Clerk Helen Stout, whose onetime sheep town of Parson, Wyo., is now filling
...bested Ted as once he beat the killer rabbit, down in the chigger latitudes. He smiles (force of habit) and meditates upon the Garden, like some mildly triumphant parson. Nearly four years pass behind his eyes: golden days, cardigan days, Billy Beer days; the abrupt surprise of Russian nastiness and the South Bronx ghettos. His reveries sweep to Jordan 's squirted Amarettos (a fancy drink for a good ole boy) and Vance and Lance, and jogger's tibia and all the money Billy made for being friends with Libya. But nothing can efface the joy of this renomination...