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...great toxic-waste mess oozed its way into the nation's consciousness, and its conscience, a little more than five years ago. "An environmental emergency," declared the Surgeon General in 1980. "A ticking time bomb primed to go off," warned the Environmental Protection Agency. The reaction was typically all-American: Congress created a grand-sounding "Superfund," a $1.6 billion, five-year crash program designed to clean up thousands of leaking dumps that were threatening to contaminate much of the nation's underground water supplies...
...keeping with his all-American image, Hudson, 59, was born in the heartland, in Winnetka, Ill. His mother was a telephone operator, and his father, Roy Scherer, was an automobile mechanic who left the family when his son was a child. When his mother remarried, little Roy assumed his stepfather's surname, Fitzgerald. After that, his boyhood was so normal and wholesome that one of his high school chums was later to recall, "It looked like apple pie and ice cream to me." Roy saw wartime service as a Navy airplane mechanic, then headed west to Hollywood. He had once...
Bowes, a two time all-American, has plenty of skill and experience as well as determination. She was ranked first in the country for most of the '84-'85 season...
Dushay left a large imprint in the Brighton program, although she was bumped to the number-two slot by an All-American in her final season...
...all-American as, well, cheesecake. After she won the Miss America title in Atlantic City last week, however, Susan Akin's first wish was for hot apple pie and ice cream. Since then, Akin, 21, a blond, blue-eyed public relations and communications major at the University of Mississippi, has been swept up in the whirlwind of talk shows, photo sessions and interviews that come with her crown. "For me, Miss America is the ultimate," says Akin, who has participated in at least 100 professional beauty pageants since the age of five. She has picked up a few expert techniques...