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...that's pretty much all the news from Random Hearts, a grim and draggy romance in which even the clothes and sets are dismal. Ford is a Washington detective named Dutch Van Den Broeck; Scott Thomas is a Congresswoman named Kay Chandler. Both their spouses are killed in a plane crash, and he suspects--his obsessive nature and the habits of his profession driving him on--that they were lovers. She perhaps agrees, but prefers denial and resumption of her re-election campaign...
...think we've responded well to [Tri-Captain and defensive wizard] Rich Van den Broeck's injury. We made some adjustments on defense, and the defense is back on track. We're getting better every day--that...
DIED. Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, 83, president of the huge, antiunion J.P Stevens textile company for much of the past half-century; in Edison, N.J. Under Stevens, the 170-year-old company became the U.S.'s second largest textile firm (1982 revenues: $2 billion), but lost its fight to bar unions in 1980, when it was cited for violating fair labor practices. Stevens' greatest personal fame came in 1954, when as Secretary of the Army he gamely defended himself for 13 days against the attacks of Joseph McCarthy in televised hearings that eventually led to the demagogic Senator...
Bobby Clampett, 22, fired a five-under-par 65 yesterday to share the lead with Lance Ten Broeck after the first round of the $250,000 Southern Open Golf Tournament in Columbus, Georgia...
PERSONNEL Changes of the Week ¶Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, 56, who disposed of his interest in J. P. Stevens & Co. before he took office as Secretary of the Army, was re-elected its president two weeks after leaving the Pentagon. He replaces Joseph H. Sutherland, who was moved up to the newly created post of vice chairman. Yaleman Stevens came into the family textile business as a salesman, became president by the time he was 30, built the company into the nation's No. 2 textile manufacturer, earned a reputation as an intelligent, progressive businessman. As a Cabinet...