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...finding scant comfort in so much local knowledge. "When that little picture machine of his goes off," he said of Bird, "he's in a world of his own. (Fitch used to like to call Bird "Kodak.") That little voice starts talking to him. He's in his backyard again. He's playing by himself." The image delighted Fitch, but only for a moment. "I don't know," he sighed, unable to blame Defender Rodney McCray for Bird's three-point plays inside and out. "What can anyone do with Larry?" What would Havlicek do? John Hondo answered confidently...
Despite Stephenson's choice of words, however, the party he has put together won't resemble any backyard barbeque you've ever seen. The event will cost more than $1 million. Although President Ronald W. Reagan snubbed Harvard, the Prince of Wales and the Aga Khan '59 will find time to commemorate the 350th anniversary of higher education in America...
...John's Moore excelled in English and wasa prize pupil of Brother Santoro's acclaimed highschool company, which won statewide "mini-academyawards" in repeated drama festivals. As a kid herecalls loving disaster movies and wanting toactually "play the Towering Inferno," and hismother says he annually staged a backyard pick-upplay, the way other kids would organize astreet-wide round of touch football...
...court last week also okayed official spying in the sky. Dante Ciraolo had high double fences around his backyard in Santa Clara, Calif. Even so, police acting on a tip were able to spot the 73 marijuana plants growing in the yard--by flying overhead in a chartered plane. Dow Chemical Co. had even more elaborate security precautions at its plant in Midland, Mich. So the Environmental Protection Agency also sent up an airplane, to get pictures as part of an inspection of the site. In two 5-4 decisions, the Supreme Court ruled that neither search from the skies...
...what is the right formula? Not everyone is threatened by a nuclear waste dump in his backyard. The Baby Boomers remain exceedingly leery of conventional politicians. Though Eugene McCarthy's "children's crusade" helped speed Lyndon Johnson's departure from the White House in 1969, the slow wind down of the Viet Nam War and the depressing revelations of Watergate, not to mention images of assassinated heroes burned into their brainpans by TV, turned off many Baby Boomers to politics just as they were reaching voting age. Voter participation among Baby Boomers remained well below the national average into...