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...says pro football's Director of Personnel Mark Duncan, "except fat. I'm the only fat person allowed around here." They are paid $250 to $350 for each of a dozen or more games a season. Though they work full time at jobs as various as pharmacist, policeman and bank vice president, their training for the game is extensive. Each summer they attend a week-long clinic climaxed by a six-hour written test. During the season, they are rated by the coaches as well as by Duncan and his staff, who take notes at the games...
...Fatah man, a burly, mustachioed Arab dressed in dungarees and a dirty white sweater, told the more convincing story, and the fedayeen council granted the glory to El Fatah. Arriving back at Arafat's headquarters in suburban Amman, he related that he wore a stolen Israeli policeman's uniform, drove a small, British-built delivery van to .the market, and parked it while armed terrorists covered him from nearby hiding spots. The van was loaded with 300 Ibs. of TNT, 30 Ibs. of gelignite and several cases of scrap metal to serve as shrapnel, all topped by beer...
Astonishingly enough, several days ago and little more than a week after his action, Atkins addressed the Massachusetts Conference of Social Welfare, saying, "Communities must set up their own self-policing organizations" because "the policeman has become the major irritant and the major catalyst for riots...
Died. Enid Blyton, seventyish, prolific British author of calm, cozy children's books; of a coronary thrombosis; in a London hospital. Despite criticism that her work was sentimental, few bedtimes were complete without a story about Toyland, inhabited by Little Noddy the Pixie and Mr. Plod the Policeman. She authored some 400 titles (translated into 33 languages), and her sales in Britain alone topped the 85 million mark...
...nuclear engineering and became a flying instructor. Until he was forced to abandon it because of his time-consuming space training, Anders owned a Cessna 172 and flew it every time he got a chance. Unusually conscientious, he once won a good-driver's award after an Albuquerque policeman saw him stop his car, remove a cinder block from a crowded highway and drive...