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Captain Brent Wilkinson will be back to play full-time at linebacker after missing much of Saturday's game with a calf injury. Although replacement Bob Joyce turned in a Wilkinson-like 12-tackle performance, the Captain will return to provide some of the inspiration that has made the defense the biggest and most pleasant surprise of the young '85 season...
...flesh you so fancifully fry is not so succulent, tasty or nice it's death for no reason and death for no reason is MURDER and the calf that you carve with a smile is MURDER and the turkey you so festively slice is MURDER...
...Mary Slaney now, wed the first day of the year to bulbous Richard Slaney, a British discus spinner. Last week she closed her indoor season unluckily with a pulled calf muscle, but in three races she collected another world record, her 16th. She runs like Mercury. "Some day I want to be a mother and do normal things," she says, "but for now I just want to get better, better and better. If the Olympics did anything for me, it renewed that desire." Her winter has been eventful. Several days after the fact was only casually reported to Oregon police...
When 47-year-old Discus Thrower Al Oerter wrecked his calf three weeks ago and abandoned his quest for a fifth gold-medal Games, sentiment took a tough loss. But it rebounded marvelously in the person of Hammer Thrower Burke, 44, the singular delight of the trials. His motto: "We must not step off life's parade." A veteran of the 1968 Olympics, Burke retired for twelve years, patented a hydraulic weight-lifting machine and sold it for $2 million. Five years ago, his two teen-age daughters helped him scrub the rust from the old ball and chain...
Recalling the trauma of emerging from obscurity to celebrity in 1962 when his novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published in the Soviet Union, Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Oak and the Calf: "For 15 years I had lurked discreetly in the depths - the camps, exile, underground - never showing myself, and now I had risen to the surface and sudden fame." He concluded...