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...night long, the hot Santa Ana winds swept out of the Mojave Desert, gusting through communities south of Los Angeles at speeds topping 60 m.p.h. In Anaheim, just before dawn, the high winds blew down a power line, setting the fronds of a palm tree afire. Sparks showered onto the dry wooden shingles of a nearby rooftop, which exploded into flames. Sped by the winds, the sparks leaped from roof to roof, from street to street. For three hours, the fire raged out of control as residents in a four-block area of apartment complexes scrambled out of its path...
DIED. Philip K. Dick, 53, prolific, sometimes visionary science-fiction writer whose multilayered stories probed the discrepancies between illusion and reality; of a stroke; in Santa Ana, Calif. The characters in his 50 novels (Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said) were often ordinary people trapped in extraordinary circumstances whose distorted perceptions prevented them from realizing their own dilemmas. The task of the science-fiction writer, said Dick, "is creating multiverses, rather than a universe...
Meanwhile, Laura Kaye, scored another of her typical landslides, despite moving up a position to number three and despite having missed a week of practice because of strep throat. Not one to look for excuses. Kaye whipped Penn's Ana Brady...
...without its perils. Recalls Hecht: "A woman in Kansas ordered Joseph Wambaugh's The Choirboys, thinking it must be about a church picnic. She soon let us know what she thought about the language and sex." B.O.T.'s catalogue now gives an XX rating for tapes of Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus and The Hite Report. But even the lustiest prose is underplayed. Actor Dan Lazar reads My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Errol Flynn's spicy autobiography, in the vocal equivalent of Muzak. Says Hecht: "We don't mind a slight inflection...
Tackles--GREG BROWN, HARVARD, 6-5, 255, Junior, Santa Ana, Calif.; Mark Rifkin, Princeton, 6-6, 275, Senior Cherry Hill...