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Kerzner, whose third wife Anneline, 28, is a former Miss World, got his start in the hospitality business when he persuaded his father to take out a lease on a dockside dive in the city of Durban. He turned the place into a swinging pub and used the profits to build the first hotel in a chain that became known as Southern Sun Hotel Group...
...last stay, "you got the air. You got exercise, weights. You got baseball." Down the way is a diamond lined with rotting bleachers brought from Ebbets Field after the Dodgers moved their bases west. Down another way, at water's edge, a gull fell like a thunderbolt and dive-bombed a crab. Canadian geese strolled about with proprietary postures, as if they paid property tax. Out on the sound, two swans snagged lunch for three cygnets. Then a backhoe coughed into business and covered Emily Nickert, 78, who lay atop Helen Aleon, 89, whose coffin rested upon someone else...
...Chalibashvili, 21, Soviet diver; of heart failure, after having struck his head (incurring multiple skull fractures) on the ten-meter-high platform while attempting a 3½ reverse somersault in tuck position at the World University Games; in Edmonton, Alta. The athlete had had trouble in executing the difficult dive in practice. Anticipating tragedy, other divers along with U.S. Coach Bob Rydze could not watch his competition effort. Said Rydze in anger after the July 10 accident: "It's the coach's responsibility to make sure his divers are not attempting dives they're not capable...
...Channel is the have for national and local punk and hardcore mavens. It packs in a lot of people, but it is a real dive, and is not recommended to those allergic to excessive sweat and flying bodies Slam dancers, take note of dates set for the Anti-Nowhere League, UB40, and Echo and the Bunnymen...
Infrequent library patrons, however, are sometimes surprised--"The bats do dive upon people sometimes if they've been disturbed, and some people don't really like that. But that's mostly people who don't use the library very much because they don't know the bats are here," said Meyer secretary Kathy Fehrn. "But we're used to it," she added. "For us it's just, 'Oh god, there's another bat.'" --The Stanford Daily