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...strong 15:01.31, Hackett provided the excitement with a mid-race battle with Edmonton Keyano's Peter Szmidt. At the 500 mark. Szmidt, the world record-holder or the 400-meter freestyle, had the edge, but Hackett proved tougher, inching up and then moving out when Szmidt began to fade...
Says a family friend: "There but for the grace of God goes anyone's kid." Beverly McBeath was no friend at Highland Park (Texas) High School, but she speaks for all her schoolmates when she recalls that John Hinckley was "so normal he appeared to fade into the woodwork." Nonetheless, some time in the barren years since his 1973 graduation from high school, Hinckley went beyond mere ordinariness. His solitude and fecklessness became chronic, and he started drifting...
...business associate Clarence Netherland: "Something happened to that boy in the last six to eight years to break him from the family tradition and the family life-style." In fact, John Hinckley's past years seem not to constitute a break so much as Hollywood's slow fade to black...
...Wicked Loving Lies, has sold 3 million copies, and her fellow rapees, the heroines of paperback romances, were responsible for sales upwards of $100 million in 1980 -representing over one-fourth of mass-market softcover volumes. This year is expected to be even bigger. As gothics and antebellum adventures fade, the "contemporaries," as the trade labels them, are becoming the ardor of the day. Says Dell Vice President Ross Claiborne: "It's a license to print money." The license requires a plucky heroine up against heartrending odds (job problems; the other woman). Object: the tycoon or professional...
...nothing but a bummer. [doo-wah, repeat chorus, fade out] --Descartes...