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Inevitably, fads fade, but while the mitt is still a hit, Mark Paliafito's company is lining up commercial sponsors who will stamp their logos on the Super Grip Ball. He also plans to make disks 7 ft. in diameter for team play. By next year, five new versions are expected to be on the market. And that should be welcome news even for beachgoers who do not play: the muted sounds from Velcro mitts will be displacing the annoying thwock-thwock-thwock of old- style beach paddle-ball games...
Until last week the Iran-contra scandal seemed ready to fade from the courts, the news and the mind. After costing more than four years and $25.5 million, the investigation headed by special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh was limping to a close. A federal appeals court had overturned Lieut. Colonel Oliver North's felony conviction, and a retrial seemed unlikely. The same outcome seemed possible for former National Security Adviser John Poindexter's conviction...
...American kids than that of Leonardo's lady, is an icon that grows more revered by the day. Millions more people have seen him pushing Nike Air Jordans, Pepsi and Wheaties than performing magic -- make that outperforming Magic -- on a basketball court. But all the commercial hype and publicity fade away when he does play, for Michael Jordan is the artwork and the artist, the poem and the . poet. He reinvents the sport every time he rises -- and rises -- into the air. He plays the game without cliche...
...coverage of trials becomes more commonplace, the arguments against it may fade away -- just as the old debate over TV coverage of House and Senate deliberations has disappeared now that C-SPAN is a permanent fixture. One of the lessons of the media age is that the TV juggernaut is hard to reverse. But it should not be permitted to crush constitutional rights as it rolls along...
...Bush and Baker are at best neutral toward the Jewish state. "We've reinforced that perception with a series of statements viewed as unfairly squeezing Israel," concedes a State Department official, "but if we can generate even a little progress -- or just the appearance of progress -- the hostility should fade...