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...turned away by border officials, who were suspicious of the arsenal of guns and ammunition he was carrying in the back of his white 1963 Chrysler. Schoenfeld began selling his guns, using his own driver's license for identification, and the FBI got on his trail. At dawn last Thursday he was captured as he turned off Highway 101 near Menlo Park, Calif., about one mile from his home in Atherton...
Shortly before dawn one day last week a 25-car caravan descended upon the 100-acre estate of Frederick N. Woods III near Portola Valley, Calif., 34 miles from San Francisco. Out of the vehicles burst 62 sheriffs deputies and federal agents armed with riot guns and tear-gas canisters. Their quarry, wanted on 27 counts of kidnaping and 16 counts of robbery: Woods' son, Frederick Woods IV, 25; James Schoenfeld, 24; and his brother Richard, 22, both sons of a podiatrist in Atherton, Calif...
...dark hours before dawn, while his pregnant wife Crystal lies asleep, Warren Zevon struggles to compose a symphony in his backyard studio in North Hollywood. It is an ambitious undertaking for a man who by day is a successful rock songwriter. "When I was 13, I got an autograph from Igor Stravinsky," Zevon recalls. That inspired him to start teaching himself harmony and counterpoint and even to bring a few fledgling compositions to the master's home for his inspection. "When puberty hit, I turned to rock," Zevon goes on. "I could see that when the average attention span...
...dawn on Tuesday, Jimmy's sister Ruth Stapleton flew to Atlantic City to promote her book The Gift of Inner Healing. Sales lately have been running at 4,000 copies a week. Ruth signed autographs and chatted with about 200 people who were standing in line at the Christian Booksellers Association convention (see RELIGION). Then she flew back to New York and the intrusion of politics. She received letters addressed "Jimmy's Sister" or "Faith Healer, Plains...
Such self-abnegation cannot have come easily. So intense was Bayi's desire to stave off Walker's onslaught on his record that he had been rising before dawn each morning at the Tanzanian training camp near Mount Kilimanjaro to take a brisk, eight-mile jog through the chill highlands air-at a formidable sub-six-minute-mile pace. Later in the day, after calisthenics and a rest, the slightly built (5 ft. 9 in., 135 Ibs.) miler would run to the point of exhaustion. Unlike the notoriously roistering Walker, Bayi does not smoke or drink, and, while...