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...usual the aquamen combined a group of talented veterans with a slew of inspired underclassmen in order to clinch the victory. Leading the way were Roberts and Miao Roberts posted a time of 9:22:09, his best of the year, to capture the 1000-yd. freestyle, almost 33 seconds faster than the Eastern qualifying time for that event. Mial placed first in the 200- and 100-yd. freestyle and later teamed up with junior Bob Hrachak and yardlings James Kornish and Carr Phillips to ice the Crimson victory in the meet's final event, the 400-yd. freestyle...
...major traffickers and convict 16. The man doing the talking was Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes, a.k.a. "Mr. Untouchable." Barnes fingered Frank James, his ex-partner in drug dealing, for ordering his brother-in-law ice-picked to death. James, said Barnes, employed a four-man hit team; one aspiring killer slew a random passer-by as an audition...
...program's popularity has spawned a slew of Who conventions. A two-day gathering held at Longleat, the Marquess of Bath's stately home in Wiltshire, drew 60,000 fans last Easter. A 20th-anniversary celebration of the series at Chicago's Hyatt Regency O'Hare in November attracted more than 7,000 aficionados. "Chicago has suddenly become the hotbed for Doctor Who, " says Rose Arias, 22, president of the Celestial Intervention Agency (CIA), a fan club for the program...
Next week the Horse of the Year will be proclaimed by the Daily Racing Form, the National Turf Writers and the Thoroughbred Racing Associations. It is a three-horse race: the Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Slew O'Gold, the French filly All Along and Devil's Bag. Only Secretariat ever won it at two, when the older candidates were weaker. So some voters may insist on seeing Devil's Bag challenged first. "Some day we're going to have to call on him," says Stephens, "and you'll see a horse...
...this girl." Subsisting on codeine and Seconal, she is nursing an arm slashed in a mugging for $12 and a cheap tape recorder. She is the sole supporter of three children going through various phases of adolescent trauma. A ghostwriter, May writes books to order, bringing glory to a slew of semi-literate literary celebrities in return for modest cash rewards. To keep herself entertained, she intertwines the stories of late family members--Aunt Giselle, Sonya, Uncle Trasker--with the made-to-order material. Bored, poor, overworked--what's a girl to do? Friends have suggestions...