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DIED. JOHN CAMERON SWAYZE, 89, newscaster turned pitchman; in Sarasota, Florida. Swayze found fame in 1949 "hopscotching the world for headlines" on Camel News Caravan, a network-news prototype. The Kansan later attained pop icondom hawking Timex watches, the ones that would "take a licking and keep on ticking...
Then luck struck. Director James Cameron cast him in what could have been a no-impact supporting role in True Lies. Thanks in part to his sly, scene-stealing comic turn as Arnold Schwarzenegger's loud, loutish best friend, the movie was boffo in 1994 ($146 million gross). Arnold instantly became one of filmdom's most wanted second bananas--a kind of low-rent Tony Randall for the age of Beavis...
Despite its endless applicability, Les Miserables is successful simply because it is one of the most entertaining pieces of theater to surface during the last decade. In 23,000 performances since Cameron Mackintosh and the Royal Shakespeare Company first produced it in London, thirty-six million people have enjoyed Claude-Michel Schonberg's memorable melodies and Herbert Kretzmer's powerful, alarmingly addictive lyrics...
...changes are working. The congregation has grown and now boasts almost 200 members, many from other neighborhoods. Betsy Cameron and her husband Mark Gray, both in their 30s, heard about Oakhurst while they were teaching English in Malawi in southeast Africa. "To [white] people who have stepped outside their own culture, you feel uncomfortable going to a white church," says Gray. "This is the only church we have attended since we came back in 1993. We feel at home here." Inez Fleming, 46, a family counselor, made a promise to attend the church of her new husband several years...
Military and Science Editor Cameron E. Half '96 resigned as well as, for unrelated reasons, he said. Half went on to take another position within the International Relations Council (IRC), the body that runs HIR, in the Model United Nations board...