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Manhattan cabbies sometimes stop for the hailing figure on Park Avenue, but he never gets in. Patrons new to Kathy Gallagher's, a chic Los Angeles eatery, request tables far from the cigar chomper who seems to be a fixture in the place. In Boca Raton, Fla., vacationers have called police because a youth has loitered too long staring...
...David Nicholas, pastor of the Spanish River Presbyterian Church in Boca Raton, Fla., writes the outlines of his sermons with the help of a program called Super SCRIPSIT on one of his parish's two Radio Shack computers. Thomas Birr, the church's business administrator, uses two titles from the CompuChurch line, the Gift Program to record donations and the Shepherd...
...under no illusions that he did much more than survive last week's contests. Asked what would have happened if Mondale had lost Georgia to Hart, as he came close to doing, Campaign Manager Robert Beckel squeezed an imaginary golf club, sighted down an imaginary fairway and intoned: "Boca Raton, about 290 yards, par four." But the Mondale camp could point to exit polls showing that in several of last week's primaries, voters who made their choice in the final few days mostly went to the former Vice President. The swing was enough to produce must wins...
...year-old Bedford, N.Y., woman was a victim of an increasingly common scam: telephone credit card fraud. Last week such cases seemed to grow larger and more outlandish by the day. Philip Rubin, 71, of Boca Raton, Fla., received a statement demanding $176,983. Said he: "I was more than a little surprised." Even that was topped by a bill presented to the Michigan Association of Governmental Employees for calls charged to its new, but not yet distributed, credit cards. It came...
...held too soon will not be a fair reflection of the will of the people." Chief Education Officer George Brizan, 41, is planning to form and lead the National Democratic Party, but its main draw is Robert Grant, a longtime lecturer in law who also happens to be "Soca Boca," one of the island's hottest disc jockeys. Winston Whyte, 39, who was released from four years of imprisonment during the invasion, hopes to drum up support in the villages. But he too concedes that "Gairy is the most organized force in the country." All three men are also...