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...Reagan gives us chapter and verse on what programs he will cut and by how much, his balanced-budget pledge is no more than a pious hope. It's a little cruel to call this voodoo economics, as George Bush apparently did. I'd call it Indian-rope-trick economics or Houdini economics...
...eleven before fleeing to a nearby fire station. There he critically wounded himself with a shot in the forehead from the .22-cal. pistol. When policemen went to his isolated farmhouse eight miles from Daingerfield (pop. 2,800), they discovered his wife Gretchen bound to a kitchen chair with rope and telephone cord. On a table was a note: "Jeremiah says the King is the King of Kings." In the basement, the officers found a letter from the Soviet embassy in Washington informing King that he could not become a Soviet citizen, plus records of about $300 deposited this spring...
...killer." In 19th century portrayals, Uncle Sam has a certain look in his eye that had disappeared by the time of the famous World War I I WANT YOU recruiting poster. The look is conniving, raw and whip-mean, the squint-shrewd eye of a man with a rope who is about a week's ride from the nearest law court...
...however, is difficult. Draftees earn a mere four rubles a month (about $6), enough for 13 bottles of beer or a third of a liter of vodka or a dozen packs of cigarettes. Because draftees are short of cash, the Soviet military has a theft problem. Auto parts, grease, rope, felt boots, heavy overcoats and other items in short supply for civilians are smuggled off base to nearby villages and sold or bartered for liquor. Soviet soldiers are as adept as their counterparts elsewhere in the world at concocting an alcoholic brew from such unusual sources as after-shave lotion...
Professors demand performance and coaches demand dilligence; and the tug of war, using the student as a rope, has left many onetime athletic enthusiast disenchanted and often bitter. Also in the middle lie the coaches, trying to drive their teams to greater heights while burdened by their players' classroom demands...