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Sportsman's Paradise is set in the sleepy Long Island resort of Orient Point, which has been discovered by Southerners who have moved North. This time the heroine is a Collier herself, and she carries a torch for a moody chap named Hobby Fox. She thinks of him as a burnt-out case -- "courtly and windblown and stoic" -- but in his 36 years he has been a major-league ballplayer, a New Orleans prosecutor and the foreign editor of an important New York City newspaper. What story there is gradually reveals the couple's past affair and tells...
...promised their protests could rival those last summer in Wichita, which drew thousands of participants, lasted six weeks and produced more than 2,600 arrests. But the opening of the Buffalo campaign drew only 300 members to the area -- a battalion whose weakness led at least one leader to resort to sophistry. The women who kept their appointments at the clinics, said the Rev. Robert Schenck, were "no one of any consequence, I can assure you." By midweek, Buffalo's anti-abortion rights mayor, James Griffin, was backpedaling. After offering the group his "open arms" last October, he insisted last...
When a polo pony from the royal compound in Jordan plunged into the Gulf of Aqaba and swam to the Israeli resort town of Eilat, local authorities took no chances. They checked to see if the defector was booby-trapped. It wasn't. Though Jordan and Israel are technically at war, Israeli officials returned the pony through a U.N. go-between...
Tribe also said he felt remorse for cultivatingthe skills and intellect of students who resort tosuch parody...
...Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead have given way to This Is My Life, I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. Coming soon: We're Back and Death Becomes Her. Expect overburdened multiplex marquees to resort to alphabet-soup abbreviations...