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Among those bound for glory at Blodgett Pool include sprinters Linda Suhs of Springfield, Ill., Stacey Moran of New City, N.Y., and Janice Sweetser of Camp LeJeune, N.C., divers Lisa Pierce of Bay Village, Ohio and Jenny Greene of Darien, Conn., breaststroker Lani Nelson of Fairfax, Virg., backstroker Karen Schneider of Weston, Conn. and middle-distance freestyler Ronda Applebaum of Newton Center, Mass...
More worrisome for U.S. agents, Panama's role as a middleman has changed to that of a leading player in the drug scene. Last May, in Panama's Darien rain forest, authorities came upon an elaborate cocaine laboratory, almost identical to the complexes across the Colombian border. Some of the 22 Colombians arrested at the site claimed that they had earned the right to process cocaine by paying off a leading Panamanian official. The Colombians were sent home without being charged with a crime...
...year, a gleaming white tour de force with a majestic presence. It is the latest in a distinguished series of structures in which Meier's signature porcelain panels and white pipe railings are used with remarkable consistency and yet unflagging invention. Among the others: the Smith House in Darien, Conn. (1967); The Bronx Developmental Center for the mentally retarded (1976); and the Atheneum, a visitors' center at the restored Utopian community of New Harmony, Ind. (1979). Meier has also designed museums that are under construction in Frankfurt, West Germany, and Des Moines. In recognition of his body...
...More than 100 companies now compete with A T & T's Western Electric in manufacturing a vast new array of telephones, from the basic black model to designer styles and gimmicks like the Pac-Man special. Opportunities for growth-and disaster-abound. Technicom International, a young Darien, Conn., company that sells residential phones and small-business communications systems, captured revenues of $43 million in its first full year. Wall Streeters predict, however, that newcomers to the telecommunications competition will have a high mortality rate...
...last year were awarded $1,008 extra for superior performances and extra work; the program is generally well received by the teaching staff. It has also worked for more than 30 years in the Ladue School District of suburban St. Louis, and more than 20 years in Dalton, Ga. Darien, Conn., however, halted its three-year experiment in merit pay because the paperwork involved had become a bureaucratic nightmare...