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With a bold stroke, Ronald Reagan plans to make the U.S. one nation, divisible, with liberty and justice dependent on the vagaries of 50 states. Two hundred years of evolving into "one nation indivisible" will be wasted if the New Federalism takes effect...
DIED. Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson, 50, windmill-style heavyweight-boxing contender whose ability to endure massive pain wore down opponents more than his flailing punches; of a stroke; in Queens, N.Y. With 17 wins, four losses and one draw on his record, Jackson, a strong favorite of TV fight fans in the '50s, was forced from the ring in 1958 when the New York State athletic commission said he had suffered brain damage. Friends claimed Jackson had been exploited financially during his ring career, and he spent many of the remaining years of his life shining shoes and driving...
After the match, Boyum expounded on such things as cutting out the excess in his stroke, and eliminating the topspin, but it was a recurrent theme that the outcome of the match circled back to: "When the big points came, I knew I'd get them...
...shunning disfellowshipped Witnesses included shunning those like Gregerson who were "disassociated." Not long afterward, Franz was seen in a restaurant eating a meal with his benefactor Gregerson. That single sighting provided the technical infraction for which Franz was finally disfellowshipped by the Gadsden leaders two months ago. "By one stroke they eliminated all my years of service," says Franz. "I frankly do not believe there is another organization more insistent on 100% conformity...
...Raresh, Corde's mother-in-law, for whom the Corders have traveled to Rumania (Bellow, incidentally, also went to Bucharest several years ago with his mathematician wife on a similar journey) lies in a state hospital, her face criss-crossed with tapes and tubes. After a coronary and a stroke, it is only a matter of time for Valeria. But in Corde's reminiscences of her. She is a strikingly vital character. "Great Valeria," the psychiatrist, the epitome of Old World class in a country of New Age brutality and philistinism, the matriarch who called the shots for a circle...