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...lectured on the subject. Now comes a new book, Recollections of Death: A Medical Investigation (Harper & Row; $13.50). The author is Dr. Michael Sabom, 37, a cardiologist at Atlanta VA Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at Emory University. Like most doctors, he was initially skeptical about " 'far-out' descriptions of afterlife spirits and such." When asked to help lead a church-group discussion of Moody's book, he decided to do a little research with his own critically ill patients. "Five years and 116 interviews later," he says, "I am convinced that my original suspicions...
...Prince and Princess of Wales, received a pair when they were married. What do these luminaries have in common? Along with thousands of lesser mortals, each has had his or her name appended to at least one star-of the heavenly kind-in what seems to be the most far-out fad since astrology...
...needling the frayed nerves of the others, and exploding in careless bravura. He is wired. Johnny Boy digs the risk and the rock 'n' roll, so he half dances through the movie. He enjoys being out of control. He revels in it. We respond because he strikes such a far-out, flamboyant note that we know we could never be that...
...raez's real goal was to be a painter. But not a starving one. So instead she started out as a fashion illustrator. Wanderlust struck in 1966, however, and she joined an airline as a reservations clerk. On trips abroad, she always stopped in London to pick up far-out fashions, and in 1968 she and Mohammed Houssein Kamali, her Persian-student husband of one year, opened a New York shop of imported clothes...
...Fleming's novel Moonraker, Multimillionaire Hugo Drax built himself a huge rocket to annihilate the city of London. He was foiled in his sinister strategems by James Bond, Agent 007. Now a businessman space buff named Gary Hudson is trying some rather far-out capitalism of his own, with a plan to start putting satellites into orbit from a private launching pad in Texas by 1983. So far, not even the U.S. Government is trying to stop...