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Social Science Professor David Klein has not actually made that proposal, but in a recent issue of the Journal of Safety Research, he makes a sweeping generalization about snowmobile enthusiasts: they court danger to achieve satisfactions that their dull jobs cannot provide. The problem, Klein theorizes, stems from the discrepancy between cultural values and reality. The derring-do that had survival value in frontier days is still extolled in the U.S.; yet it is obsolete. In an industrialized nation where most jobs are routine, a man cannot win status through on-the-job valor. To compensate, he surrounds himself with...
Starr won a close opening bout, 4-3, and then fought a slow-paced quarterfinal match with Navy's Dave Jones, the third-seed. There were no takedowns in the dull match, and Jones won, 1-0, in the second overtime period when he escaped successfully and rode Starr for the entire third period...
None of the Above. The absence of issues last week made a rather dull affair out of what normally in an election year would be a highly charged political confrontation-the annual hearings of the congressional Joint Economic Committee. The committee's Democrats zeroed in on the current unemployment rate of nearly 6%, the Administration's gravest economic problem by far. Stein argued that Nixon had inaugurated "the strongest program to reduce unemployment that there ever has been in this country." It includes, he said, not only a huge, employment-building deficit in the federal budget, but also...
...Goalie Mike Curran. upset the strong Czech team 5-1 and then moved into contention for a medal. In women's figure skating, buxom Beatrix Schuba of Austria built up such a commanding lead in the school figures, the technical half of the event, that her competent but dull performance in freestyle skating did not deter her from winning the gold medal on total points. The freest spirit of all was U.S. Skater Janet Lynn. A pixy in pink, the tiny (5 ft. 2 in., 108 Ibs.) teen-ager whirled through her double Salchows and camel spins with grace...
Offsetting the energetic Vandervane in this novel is his friend Douglas Yandell, the 34-year-old narrator. Yandell, a competent, dull music critic, hangs on to his job at a London paper "if only to keep out the sort of little mountebank likely to do a turn at it between a spell on the books page and the real prize spot, the restaurant column...