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Spitz was born in Modesto, Calif., but moved with his parents to Honolulu when he was two. As his mother Lenore recalls: "We went to Waikiki every day. You should have seen that little boy dash into the ocean. He'd run like he was trying to commit suicide." That early drive may well have been imparted by his father, who admits to being a "forceful individual." His pragmatic creed, repeated often to Mark: "Swimming isn't everything. Winning...
Because they're all psychopaths, says Alan Harrington. About 20 years ago, Harrington wrote an extraordinary novel called The Revelations of Dr. Modesto, which told of a young man's efforts to live by Dr. Modesto's mysterious philosophy of "centrism." If one could get to the center of any given situation, the center of any office or even any street corner, then success would inevitably follow. Customers rushed up to the successful centrist and demanded to buy whatever he was selling-life insurance policies, even neckties. But the young man felt a certain hollowness...
...gigantic corporation (Life in the Crystal Palace), and he indulged in the New York LSD scene (The Secret Swinger). Throughout his adventures-he has now taken refuge with a wife and two children in an adobe cottage near Tucson, Ariz.-he has remained obsessed with the vision of Dr. Modesto, that we all live in the conditions stated by Falconbridge in King John: "Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition...
A.A.U. CHAMPIONSHIP TRACK AND FIELD MEET (CBS, 3-4 p.m.). California relays from Modesto, Calif...
...Every man who feels a desire to preach is a preacher," says Kirby James Hensley. " And I never met anyone who wasn't a preacher." As president of the freewheeling Universal Life Church Inc., of Modesto, Calif., Hensley is a man of his word. Last week alone he appointed more than 1,000 new ministers in his church, and if a clergy head count is any index of growth, the Universal Life Church may well be the fastest-growing denomination in the U.S. There are already well over 18,000 ministers in Hensley's church. If the present...