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...their pains, federal prisoners get compensation ranging from a pack of cigarettes up to $25 in cash. If a volunteer's lot is particularly onerous or carries some risk of major discomfort, the Bureau of Prisons may give him "meritorious good time credits," which shave a few days off his sentence...
Bleating Sheep. On the stage are some 19 actors in black and white Pierrot costumes. The girls are sexy. They sing let's-kid-ourselves war songs, from Pack Up Your Troubles to Roses of Picardy. The mood is: come on, Jack, we'll all have a jolly time. On the screen are cute little Eton boys drilling with wooden rifles. Up in the light bulbs it says: BRUSSELS FALLS...
...Slipstreamin' around a turn in the middle of the pack," he says, "is what separates the men from the boys. If you can't cut it, you gotta back out. That simple. Life's a lot like racing. I used to want to charge right through the pack. Moss gave me some good advice: 'Stay loose. When you have to charge, be a smooth charger...
...fully prepared for the crises of the presidency-and no one should confuse "experience" with "endurance." To make his point, Ike recalls the words of Frederick the Great, who once answered a request to promote an officer simply because of his long service by pointing at a pack mule and saying, "That mule has carried that pack loyally and effectively for twelve years. But he's still a mule...
Like many vacationers, the doctors' return weary but enthusiastic. Several volunteers have made more than one trip. Dr. Grain says that it will take him four months to recover financially and to catch up on his case load back home, but he is all ready to pack his instruments and go again. "They're setting up a program in Afghanistan," he says. "I'd like to go there...