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Most restaurants have a policy of asking patrons if they wish to be seated in the non-smoking section. Martin E. Daley, a waiter at Autre Chose on Mt. Auburn Street, said that "everybody says 'yes' right away," but the added that "once they request it and you say its really full, they usually don't care," and sit in the smoking section without complaint...
Running, jumping or throwing, decathlete Daley Thompson was a winner
Just a year ago, Daley Thompson mailed a postcard to Bob Mathias, the only man ever to win two decathlon gold medals (in 1948 and 1952). "I'm going to get you," the card said with the jocular pointedness that is Thompson's singular way. Last week, after the two days and ten events that test for the title of world's greatest athlete, Thompson, 26, the cheeky, irrepressible winner of the 1980 decathlon, had made good on his challenge. He did not make it look easy, but he managed to make it look like...
...feeling," he said later. "I was having a good time." After his victory lap (wearing a light blue T shirt that read across the chest, THANKS AMERICA FOR A GREAT GAMES, and added on the back BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TV COVERAGE?), Thompson was greeted by Princess Anne. "Daley, what did she say to you?" a reporter asked. Answered Thompson: "She said I was a damn good-looking guy." So began another stand-up comedy routine...
...asks rhetorically. "No, when you're rich you're eccentric, when you're poor you're mad. So I'm mad." Thompson grew up poor and angry. He is the son of a Nigerian British immigrant who died when Daley was twelve and a Scottish mother who sent him at age seven to a school for problem children where track offered the chance to run away from trouble. His nickname is a shortened version of Ayodele, the African name his father gave him, which means "Joy comes home." His home, day in, year...