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...indictment states that, during a five-year period in the 1980s, McDade accepted money, air travel, use of vacation houses, even a golf umbrella from five manufacturers in exchange for help in obtaining defense contracts. Among the companies seeking favors were Sperry (now Unisys), Grumman and United Chem-Con, a now defunct contractor based in Lancaster, Penn. McDade -- who ran unopposed for his party's renomination two weeks ago and won the Democratic nomination as well on a write-in vote -- denied the charges, saying the investigation had turned his life into "a living nightmare...
...CHILDREN SPOKE SOLEMNLY OF SODOMY, ANImal sacrifice, fire and snakes. One boy claimed that Robert Kelly Jr., who operated the Little Rascals day-care center in Edenton, N.C., prayed to the devil. A girl said Kelly, the balding former golf pro they called Mr. Bob, raped and drugged her, then photographed her performing sexual acts with another child. Another boy said Mr. Bob took the children on a boat trip and pushed him overboard to the sharks...
...very casualness of Couples' approach to a game that can turn a player's forearms to cement and his knees to jelly is both the reason for his success and the source of his huge popularity among golf devotees. He smiles as he wins, just as he smiled when he was losing. And lately he's been winning a lot, pocketing more than $1 million already this year, with three tournament titles in the bag, and playing 28 rounds out of 40 in the subpar 60s -- an unbelievable streak of excellence...
...with a liquid swing that makes even other pros jealous. When he blew a 5- ft. putt to help the American team lose the Ryder Cup to Britain in 1989, he wept. His friend Raymond Floyd, 49, as intense on the course as Couples is relaxed, taught him some golf truths, prime among them that when a player has a lead, he needs to get a bigger lead. In winning the Masters, Couples beat -- who else? -- Raymond Floyd, by two strokes...
...display at the New York Auto Show has a range of 100 miles per charge and can go from 0 to 60 in 25 seconds. With a top speed of 65 m.p.h., it can hold its own on the freeway. It is much more than a "glorified golf cart," as Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca points out, adding, "You can get a speeding ticket in this...