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Last year's Official U.S.F.L. Guide was a collector's item for trivia buffs before the season was out. Of the 18 teams listed in 1984, 14 are still functioning, and three of those only marginally. Just for starters, the 1983 champion Michigan Panthers have merged into the Oakland Invaders, and the Arizona Wranglers have combined with the Oklahoma Outlaws as the new Arizona Outlaws. The Philadelphia Stars, last year's champs, subsumed the Pittsburgh Maulers and emerged, farther south, as the new Baltimore Stars...
Jordan's ordeal began in September 1983, when Christine Brown, a mother of five, complained to police that Garbage Collector James Rud had molested her nine-year-old daughter. Rud, who had twice before been convicted of child molesting, soon implicated Brown and a group of other citizens in tales of orgies and sex games with children...
Purchased at auction in London last summer, the page of 10 different drawings is the only one of its kind owned by a private collector, according to Konrad J. Oberhuber, Woodner Curass of Drawings in the Harvard University Art Museums...
...Make, movement, rarity," says Los Angeles Lawyer Jack Quinn. "That's what the serious collector looks for." Muses Hans Rohrer, a computer manager in Munich: "These pieces are reverse time machines. They exude a flavor--even a musty smell--of yesterday, a bit of immortality." Rohrer keeps all his yesterdays in a drawer at home. Quinn keeps the family immortality collection snug in a bank vault, although his journalist wife Joan has been known to wear several pieces of it, simultaneously, on her wrist...
...food stamp program and the Voting Rights Act. His eclectic stands have made him a target of the so-called young Turks, a highly vocal group of right-wing Republicans in the House. Charges Newt Gingrich of Georgia, a member of the group: "Dole is the tax collector for the welfare state." Responds Dole: "If you are in the minority, you can put out a lot of newsletters and say, 'I'm for lower taxes.' We have a little different view in the Senate because we're in the majority. We have to be totally responsible...