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...Alabama and Reubin Askew of Florida. Gregory claimed that he and Vonna Jo gave some $40,000 since 1974 to Jimmy Carter's campaign fund and to the Democratic Party, and he also credited himself with raising some $250,000 elsewhere for the Democrats. Because of this feat he was made a member of the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee's finance council...
Todd Lundy--serving up nothing but softballs because of a pulled muscle in his side--teamed with Andy Chaikovsky to turn the number one doubles match into a 6-4, 6-2 rout, while Don Pompan and Greg Kirsch matched that feat with a 3-and-1 romp at third doubles...
...many postcollege world-class athletes in the U.S., finding the right kind of employment is itself an Olympian feat. Barred by the rules of amateurism from playing for pay, they have had to choose between dead-end jobs that allow time for training and competition, and accepting under-the-table payoffs from track-meet promoters and sporting-goods manufacturers. The payoffs go on, but now there is new hope for the amateur athletes-a jobs-for-jocks scheme devised by Howard Miller, 51, president of the Chicago-based Canteen Corp...
...appearance on the tube features the dance of eternity, the ritual that signals the end of the world. It gets a Nielsen rating of 49. It is also the very last picture show. As Kalki concludes his dance, the earth's 4 billion inhabitants drop dead simultaneously. The feat has been accomplished by having Teddy Ottinger unwittingly rain a pattern of 70 million plague-infested paper lotuses throughout the world while flying the cult's private 707 on what she thought was a promotion tour. Only five people are left: Kalki/Kelly, his wife Lakshmi, her obstetrician, Teddy...
There are other tests. Foreign nations once looked to the U.S. as the example of a powerful economy that could grow without serious inflation, a feat attained by few countries. The fact that double-digit inflation could hit the U.S. too, as it did in 1974-75, came as a shock abroad as well as at home. Now overseas observers see the U.S. bragging that its economy is growing at one of the fastest rates in the industrial world, yet whining fearfully that inflation is likely to result. The spectacle is compounded by the nation's refusal either...