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...Famer.' The only time I ever get that excited is the night before I'm going to go fishing or hunting." Within a few days, he was blithely enjoying two- and four-hit games, and by last week he was crashing home runs, including a 475-footer judged the longest (by 3 ft.) ever hit in Royals Stadium...
Chicago Psychiatrist Sidney Weissman derisively calls it "the old Sears catalog" of psychological tests. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is indeed one of the oldest, longest and most cumbersome tests in use today. Millions of people in at least 46 countries, from psychotics to normal job seekers to Soviet cosmonauts, have puzzled their way through its seemingly endless array of odd and eerie statements (samples: "Much of the time my head seems to hurt all over"; "My soul sometimes leaves my body"; "In walking, I am very careful to step over sidewalk cracks"). Now, at age 44, the archetypal test...
...shadow of that escalation falls longest in the farming areas near the contras' southern training camps. Already, as many as 20,000 peasants have been driven from their homes by the increased cross-border shelling, and many of them are now committed to their own kind of limbo -- living in one-room shacks, unsettled by the fighting yet hardly supported by the government. All around are further casualties of war. In the sunbaked border town of Danli, the local coffee-growers' association estimates that its members have lost $15 million in four years. The farm owners have seen their land...
...first outing on the Great White Way is now the longest-running musical in Broadway history (eleven years) and has grossed $242 million to date. So who can blame Composer Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line), 42, if his latest project sounds the least little bit as if it could be called A Beauty Pageant? Actually titled Smile and loosely based on the 1975 film of that name, the show chronicles three days of competition and camaraderie among a group of high school contestants in a California beauty pageant. Some 3,000 girls auditioned for the 16 roles in the musical...
...Canada have traditionally boasted that they share the world's longest undefended border. Last week, however, the two countries remained at odds over just where one begins and the other ends...