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...Winter Olympics turned Eric Heiden into a golden apotheosis to Americans, the Swedes had long since made a national hero of Ingemar Stenmark, an eerily perfect slalom racer who is as popular at home as Bjorn Borg, the tennis champion. At 23, Stenmark has won the World Cup three times. Before Lake Placid, he had taken 14 World Cup giant slalom races in a row while competing against the best racers in the world-a record as awesome in its own way as Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941. In some ways, Stenmark is the Alpine...
...Sweden, Stenmark is a national hero on a par with Tennis Professional Bjorn Borg. With his freckles and curly hair, Ingemar has an appealing, boyish look that should...
...Banks of hydrangeas and geraniums were in dazzling bloom, and the usual profusion of red roses surrounded the members' enclosure at the All England Club. The tournament attracted record crowds, while the nation talked of virtually nothing else. True to form, the top seeds in the singles competition-Bjorn Borg and Martina Navratilova-moved relentlessly into the denouement of the fortnight-long pageant...
...young black woman named Sapphire needs three friends to drag aboard a heavy wooden crate, a cross between a coffin and footlocker. Just in from Sonoma, Linden Brolin, a skinny, blond woman in jeans and a black T shirt, with her three-year-old son Bjorn in tow, keeps asking around for a place to park her camper till she gets back from Tucson. "You won't believe this," she confides, "but I'm 37." You were about to guess 35. Laid-back Dennis Watkins says he's "going to Baja to see the whales...
...Interstate Commerce Commission license, so please don't tell anyone along the route you are a "paying passenger." The brochure promised that the drivers never drink or take drugs "while behind the wheel." It also made clear that passengers travel at their own risk. Bjorn is already swinging like a monkey from the luggage racks, while 8-year-old Leah, bound for North Carolina with her mother, purrs and mews to imitate...