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...ship's engineer, a compact, muscular fellow named Dan Sauvey. So, with the sun just clearing the horizon and beginning to burn off the mist shrouding the upstate New York city of Utica, Kaldefoss signals his crew to cast off the lines holding his command to the New York State department of transportation dock and eases it slowly, stern-first, out into the basin. Then, his craft clear, Kaldefoss settles himself behind the huge, spoked steering wheel that dominates the Peckinpaugh's pilothouse and steers for the lock leading from the harbor to the Erie Canal...
...quickest description of the new people, Democratic and Republican alike, was "the baby-boom generation." When the veterans of the "good war" of 1941-45 came home, nature worked its seduction on them. The first command of nature was to find a mate, then to find a job, then a home, preferably in the suburbs, where they could raise children. The result of the mating urge was a biological explosion. From a national birth rate of 18.8 per thousand before the war, the youngsters pushed the number up to 26.6 per thousand in 1947. There were 2.4 million babies...
...real estate income has dropped ("Who wants to be partners with somebody knowing the deal's going to be all over the papers?" Ferraro asks). She is considering writing a book about her unique campaign experience. Such a work could prove both illuminating and profitable. She can expect to command large fees for speeches (perhaps $10,000, an aide estimates). She may join a high-paying law firm. But if her husband were to be indicted, concedes one close aide, "it would be a heavy blow to her career. If he were convicted, it could well be fatal...
...being watched.' I looked up and saw three television cameras following us. We went through a door past a guard and into the room where the computer was. My friend pointed up to what looked like sprinklers in the ceiling. 'See those,' he said, 'if you enter an incorrect command you have 30 seconds to say you made a mistake or poison gas starts coming out of those nozzles.' He pointed to small doors along the wall. 'A minute after the gas starts coming out men with machine guns come out shooting from behind those doors,' he said...
UNFORTUNATELY, THE COMPANY stressed the dramatic aspects of the story, leaving less time and space for their usual exuberant exhibition of their command of dance. Instead, this recently premiered 'Creole Giselle' offers a provocative American historical portrayal of the classic white-tutu ballet...