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...uninhabited, as a group of festive Owners learn when they flit south in their supersonic choppers for an unusual New Year's Eve party. Placing fun people in trouble spots is a fertile idea, as writers from James Barrie to James Dickey have discovered. Those insulated by class, money and education play at high adventure only to find themselves tested by ordeal. Theroux devises both real and symbolic trials. The aliens pose little physical risk. Disorganized and primitively armed, they are no match for the Owners' incinerating particle beam or a perimeter-protection network that suggests an oversize bug zapper...
There had been some early warnings. The Washington Post's Christopher Dickey had been awakened by a 1:30 a.m. phone call from his U.S. office and told that an attack was to occur that night. Since the Post's editors did not know exactly when or where it would happen, they decided not to keep a telephone line open. Earlier that day, NBC had sent Producer Mike Silver up in a chartered plane to observe the Sixth Fleet. NBC decided that an attack was imminent and kept a phone line open beginning...
...with nurture and caring," observes Dr. Russel Patterson, president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and a member of the A.M.A. judicial council. This equation is entirely natural, argues Patterson, but not for the comatose patient with "no question of regaining the essence of being human." Dr. Nancy Dickey, who chaired the council, concurs: "We're not talking about going into Granny's room and taking away her water pitcher." Granny benefits from such care, says Dickey, a family practitioner in Richmond, Texas, but "the comatose patient derives no comfort, no improvement, no hope of improvement." Both doctors hasten...
...million. Along with Southern Living, the acquisition will bring into Time Inc.'s fold two other monthly magazines, Progressive Farmer and Creative Ideas for Living, as well as a book-publishing subsidiary, Oxmoor House, which markets how-to books and other illustrated volumes. Its authors have included James Dickey, Walter Cronkite and James J. Kilpatrick...
...today, it's hard to picture a kid walking into Brine's and asking for a jersey with Lynn Dickey's number on it. Dickey's never even been to a Hula Bowl, much less a Super Bowl...