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...Rockets and Royals were plagued by injuries, and Callahan, who is 6 ft. 2 in., was often drafted for daily practice. "Most players treated me like old crystal to keep from hurting me or themselves," he recalls. "Their attitude was 'I don't want to end my career playing one-on-one with a writer...
...blue-robed, silver-haired Rev. Robert Schuller appears, there is no doubt about it: the star has arrived. Schuller stares directly at the camera, slices the air with crisp gestures and modulates his powerful voice from a basso profundo to an ingratiating whisper. His arena, the $18 million Crystal Cathedral (two freeway exits south of Disneyland), is, with its mirrored skin and soaring see-through interior, an extension of Schuller's flamboyant style and eternally sunny message...
...sell it for a higher price once the merger takes place, walked away with a $300 million windfall. When some 50 of the speculators attended a dinner for Pickens last June at the Regency Hotel on Manhattan's Park Avenue, New York Mayor Edward Koch gave him a crystal replica of the city's symbol, the apple, in honor of the $50 million that the Gulf fight had brought to New York City in the form of legal fees and payments for other services. Midway through the evening a chimpanzee on roller skates suddenly appeared. Garbed in Gulf filling-station...
...Pope, the important question is, rather, whether the church's teachings are accurately presented and clearly understood by the laity. Says a person who often chats informally with John Paul: "The Pope believes that the youth of today demand a crystal-clear presentation of the Christian message and resent it when their bishops try to accommodate them by watering down that message." New York Archbishop John O'Connor says that in appointing bishops, John Paul looks first and foremost for "a very clear articulation of church teaching...
...escalators. Jahn also sees a democratic statement in his plaza and concourse, where a theater, shops and restaurants will bring rental income to the state while ensuring that this is a government office center that goes on living after 5 p.m. "The building ends up as a modern-day crystal palace," says Jahn. "But at the same time it is a people place...