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Women's swimming ninth of 24 teams after first day of EAIAW Championships...
Lennart Bergelin, his mentor and masseur since Bjorn was a ninth-grader, never put a clock on the golden career but always knew precisely when it would end. "The day that Bjorn says he is going to take a shortcut and practice only two hours instead of four," said Bergelin some years ago, "then I will know it is finished." Borg's athletic skill has not run down; his ability to concentrate...
...first time since ninth grade, I am not on the beat anymore. On my way to law school in the fall, I am confident I can do something constructive with my life, as opposed to selling Florida swampland or pushing memos in circles on a desk in a glass office tower. But I'm unsure about what my responsibilities are to act on the unease I feel, and what my capacity will be to make a significant contribution toward improving my society. I'm wondering what Meldon E. Levine is doing today...
...negative light. But the possibilities present themselves so often, it gets hard to avoid capturing some of life's little ironies. Right before Christmas, for example, the President stopped at his mother-in-law's home in Phoenix while on route to Palm Springs. The nation's ninth largest city has no public or private emergency shelters for its estimated 3300 to 6200 homeless people. In July, the city passed an ordinance making it a crime to sleep or lie down on public property; shortly before Reagan arrived, the rule was used to evict 30 homeless people from under...
...newspaper war in Detroit may be the nation's hardest fought, and it is almost certainly the costliest. Detroit is the nation's fifth largest metropolitan area (pop. 4.4 million); its News and Free Press are the ninth and tenth largest U.S. dailies. The owners of the morning Free Press (circ. 632,000) acknowledge that the paper lost $9 million last year. They assert that the all-day competitor, the News (circ. 643,000), lost twice that much in 1982, even though it has a solid 60%-to-40% lead in advertising linage, largely because the News offers...