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...finishers averaged more than 96 m.p.h., faster than established events in Monaco and Montreal. The fifth-place finish by Brazilian Nelson Piquet was enough to give him the 1981 world championship. As for high rollers, Sports Book Manager Jimmy Vaccaro observed: "The race just doesn't draw the breed of gambler the fights do. Boxing people bet everything; a race fan plays twenty-one with his wife...
Simmons represents a new breed of health instructor. Though his delivery is breezy, he exudes the compelling energy of a passionate convert. He has also grasped a central fact about new-wave fitness. America likes to think of itself as a young nation, yet its average age is already 30. Anxiety over that point, Simmons notes, is not confined to leisured matrons. The folks on food stamps and blue-collar men and women live with an unspoken fear of Wrinkle City. Says he: "People are scared of getting old. They believe they won't have a sex life, they...
...public life to a reclusive existence, publishing her diaries and letters. Last week, Baking a rare public I appearance, the widow of "Lucky Lindy" traveled to Washington to accept the Award for Achievement from the National Aviation Club. "Pilots of the '20s and '30s were a special breed," she recalled. "They wanted to expand life's possibilities to the limits, and their dreams and aspirations, to a large extent, have come true. As my husband said 25 years ago, 'We live today with the dreams of yesterday...
...Harvard athlete a unique breed? Harvard coaches appear to think...
While heroin usage still remains concentrated in the nation's ghettos, officials are seeing evidence of a new breed of "upwardly mobile" addicts. "They are the shooters who think they can beat the game--white collar workers using heroin only occasionally, just enough to keep going, and frequently mixing with other drugs," says Vic Gelineau, head of the Massachusetts Division of Drug Rehabilitation. Rather than taking root in a counter-culture and espousing alienation from the establishment, the modern group of users is effectively indistinguishable from other elements of society. "These are people from the establishment," says Gelineau. "Most...