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When he flew to Salt Lake City on Monday, Clark was clearly dying. Once a vigorous man and an avid golfer (handicap in his prime: six), Clark was suffering through the final stages of cardiomyopathy, a progressive weakening of the heart muscle that inevitably leads to congestive heart failure. The only permanent cure for cardiomyopathy is replacement of the heart, but at 61 he was eleven years over the usual age limit agreed upon by surgeons for a transplant...
Wall Street remains avid for Chi-Chi's stock. The shares, which at one time sold for 66? (after adjusting for splits), closed last week at $27. The explosive run-up has made wealthy men of Chi-Chi's founders, Marno McDermott and Max McGee. McGee, 50, a former star of the Green Bay Packers, now owns some 150,000 Chi-Chi's shares, worth about $4 million, and is a director of the company. McDermott, 44, was chairman until he resigned in February. At that time he held some 330,000 shares...
Prey's darker side should not come as too much of a surprise. He confesses an avid interest in spiritualism ("but not in seances") and has a huge library of books on the occult. He bought a summer house on an island off the Danish coast as a refuge for himself, his wife Barbara and their three children, just in case Nostradamus' prediction of a world war comes true. The bleak side of the Teutonic soul occasionally stares out uneasily from behind the affable visage. But it is quickly dispelled with the German equivalent of a verbal shrug...
...Actually, this is probably one of the safest things that he has ever done." Mrs. Hoffman says, noting that her husband is an avid mountain climber and has climbed some of the more challenging slopes in Europe. He also enjoys sailing and windsurfing, and, during the winter months, cross-country and downhill skiing...
Since that moment in the winter of her freshman year, polite McCarthy has been on avid and successful competitor--both as Harvard and in local rural races--an especially impressive achievement for someone who had almost never run a competitive step previously in her life...