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Baron Marcel Bich, 68, the ballpoint pen and pantyhose tycoon from France, who spent $10 million over the past four campaigns, has given up at last. In Newport, where the race has been conducted since 1930, Baron Bich is remembered fondly for his distinctive white costumes and for the day he sailed off in the wrong direction at the starting line and disappeared into a fog bank. Now the old Frenchman's craft, France 3, belongs to Moviemaker Yves Rousset-Rouard, who has her back in Newport for another try. The hardiest dreamer left is Alan Bond...
...difference in writing between the two can be seen under a microscope. Fiber-tipped pens were not used extensively in the U.S. until 1964. Any forger using a pen not common in the period his document purports to derive from risks quick discovery. The modern proliferation of pens, particularly ballpoints, complicates the task of current document analysts, but can provide fresh clues. A ballpoint requires the writer to exert more pressure; the force with which individuals habitually attack their writing is often distinctive...
...cream of Gardner's choices are stories that bridge these wild swings of mood and tone. Raymond Carver, the John Cheever of machinists and misfits, contributes a characteristically unusual short fiction. By the end of "Cathedral," the sarcastic hero, his eyes shut, is sharing a ballpoint pen with a blind visitor. Together they are drawing a cathedral. "My eyes were still closed. I was in my house and I knew that. But I didn't feel inside anything," he reports. He says to the blind man, "It's really something." Readers of Best American Short Stories will...
...their leader. Most of the faithful in the dusty San Salvador courtyard held flags of green and white, the party colors, that they waved from side to side, creating a sound like rustling leaves. Party officials wore distinctive green shirts. An elderly woman gave out green-and-white ballpoint pens. The Christian Democrats, members of the country's moderate center party, knew that their fortunes in the March 28 election might well decide whether El Salvador could find a democratic solution to its growing crisis, or sink further into the political violence that has taken some 30,000 lives...
...naive to be believed) causes an unbalanced young woman whom Michael has tried to protect to commit suicide. In that tragedy's aftermath, he says to the reporter: "Couldn't you just see her? Couldn't you stop scribbling, put down your goddam ballpoint and see her?" It is a question all journalists should put to themselves frequently, and we are in this film's debt for raising it. Absence of Malice does not invalidate All the President's Men. But with entertainment values-and a moral sense-every bit as high as that film...