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...villain, joylessly played by Christopher Walken, this time schemes improbably to blast open the San Andreas Fault, wiping out Silicon Valley so that he can corner the microchip market. If the picture did not carry the credits of Writers Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson and Director John Glen, one would suspect it was made by microchips making overdrafts on a depleted memory bank. It is exhausted and exhausting, an old joke retold once too often...
...bearded V.R. ("Swede") Roskam was even more ebullient than usual. "Everybody wins!" he boomed two weeks ago, as he was announcing next year's recipients of some 50 college scholarships from his own imaginative, nonprofit enterprise. The organization, which he set up two years ago in Glen Ellyn, Ill., is called Assistance Ltd. Roskam, an industrial sales executive with a soft spot for small private colleges and young scholars looking for help, finds a school that needs equipment. Then he talks corporations into donating excess equipment as tax-deductible gifts. The colleges in turn arrange for scholarships equaling the value...
Exactly in the manner of the Celtics, the Oilers came through a humiliating four-game sweeping two seasons ago by the four-time champion New York Islanders. Gretzky, who, Coach Glen Sather says, "scores goals nobody else even dreams about," scored none in the series, and his dreams were disturbed - for a summer. The first goal he finally got in the five-game rematch last year was a backhander. "I enjoy hockey even more now that I can say I'm a champion," he says. "To be champion changes everything, just the way you feel about coming to the rink...
...leading citizen is identified on a circular standard, larger than a Gulf sign, marking LARRY BIRD BLVD. Every street's a boulevard in old French Lick. The location of the Bird residence is given away by a full blacktopped court, complete with two glass backboards, reclining in a grassy glen just a good stretch of the leg from a sunny country house...
...decision overturned the conviction and death sentence of Glen Burton Ake, who killed a minister and his wife in Oklahoma in 1979 at the start of a monthlong crime spree. Ake pleaded insanity and asked for a psychiatric examination to evaluate his mental state at the time of the crime. The state refused and unsuccessfully argued before the Supreme Court that providing psychiatrists would prove too costly. Ake now faces a new trial. The wider effect of the court's ruling was not immediately clear. Forty-two states as well as the Federal Government already make psychiatrists available to poor...