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...list stands superstar Debbie Zimic. A junior, Zimic usually competes in individual medleys, and Hays calls her "the team's all-around swimmer. She swims every stroke well." Last year Zimic was the first Harvard woman ever to score at the Division I championships, which means that in the 400 individual medley, she is among the finest 15 collegiate swimmers in the country...
...participant, as are his parents and grandmother: "As we sit for this last picture, each of us in this room has been similarly reduced, our lives slowly coming together, reduced to this peaceful essence layered by fragrant pipe smoke, this remedy of time that my mother's pen stroke seems to prescribe with each scratch upon a term paper. My travels are over." And so is his moving, inclusive book, near the point at which it opened: the end that is the beginning of memory. -By Paul Gray
...years, Kremlin iconographers labored to hide the ravages of age and disease. His portraits were meticulously airbrushed to darken his gray hair, to erase his wrinkles, to sharpen his jawline. Sound engineers who monitored his broadcasts used electronic magic to mask his slurred speech, possibly the result of a stroke. The disguises fell through when Brezhnev was placed in the harsh glare of cameras that could not be controlled by party discipline. At his meeting with President Carter in Vienna in June 1979, he stumbled and nearly fell while descending a flight of stairs. On his trip to West Germany...
Elaine Johnson, golfer, after a shot hit a tree and landed in her bra: "I don't mind taking a two-stroke penalty, but I'll be damned if I'm going to play the ball where it lies...
DIED. Clinton T. Duffy, 84, warden of California's San Quentin prison from 1940 to 1952, whose humanitarian reforms inspired warm tributes from many of his inmates as well as imitation by other penologists; of a stroke; in Walnut Creek, Calif. Born and raised within San Quentin's gates as the son of a guard, Duffy took over "Q" after five riot-filled years. He abolished airless, dungeon-like cells and physical punishments, fired guards for cruelty, and introduced such unheard-of civilities as a night school, a cafeteria and an inmate-staffed newspaper. The author of three...