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DIED. KIM STANLEY, 76, protean Broadway actress, most admired for portraying a dizzying range of characters--a tomboy kid sister in William Inge's Picnic (1953), a nightclub chanteuse in Bus Stop (1955)--with notable humor and pathos; in Santa Fe, N.M. Stanley also made a few scattered but striking film appearances, earning Academy Award nominations for her roles as a deranged psychic in Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and the tyrannical mother in Frances...
Educators are finding that labyrinths have benefits for children too. "Kids, like adults, are leading very frantic lives," says Marge McCarthy, 71, a retired school psychologist who has consulted on the building of labyrinths in seven schools in Santa Fe, N.M., in the past two years. She recalls an eight-year-old writing that when he walked, he felt "relaxed, small, kind of in and not out." Another liked having a "big circle around me" while he was in that place kids love to be--the center...
Showrooms started filling with new customers almost instantly. One attraction was the innovative, even offbeat styling of a couple of new models. The compact Santa Fe SUV was designed in the company's California studio to "cut through the clutter" of look-alike products, says O'Neill. The new XG300, a luxury sedan that at $25,000 is the most expensive car Hyundai has ever offered, also has a distinctive appearance...
...seem to have cleared the quality hurdles that were once so debilitating to each company. Reilly, who just opened a second dealership in Alexandria, Va., says warranty claims are down 50%. Meanwhile, according to AutoPacific, an industry consultancy, customer satisfaction is up: the organization has just ranked the Santa Fe as America's top compact SUV. Says AutoPacific president George Peterson: "This is a testament to the excellent progress Hyundai is making in product development...
DIED. ELY CALLAWAY, 82, golf-equipment innovator and founder of Callaway Golf Co.; of pancreatic cancer; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Callaway's aim was simply to make golfers happy; to that end he designed more "forgiving" clubs, like the popular, oversize Big Bertha driver, which he introduced in 1991. In 1999 he launched the controversial ERC driver, banned by the U.S. Golf Association for exceeding the limit on the so-called springlike effect (how far the club head rebounds after striking the ball) but soundly endorsed for recreation by golf's favorite son, Arnold Palmer...