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Frank said that two bills passed last year, the Fair Housing Act and the Grove City Bill, protect people with AIDS, and carriers of the virus, from discrimination...
Jimmie Reese sighs forbearingly at all this, camped on a folding chair behind a batting cage near an orange grove, counting pitches. "Spring and baseball," muses the California Angels' most seasoned coach, "don't change very much." Reese knows something about both. Seventy-two springs ago, he was the Pacific Coast League Angels' eleven-year-old batboy for "Peerless" Frank Chance. Playing with the Yankees in 1930, Reese and Lefty Gomez split a $2-a- day suite at the new Edison Hotel. On the road, Jimmie stayed with Babe Ruth. "I roomed with the Babe's luggage, mostly," he says...
Winner of the race to print is Susan Brownmiller, whose novel Waverly Place (Grove; $18.95), published this week, was completed long before the verdict came in. In this fictive version of events leading to Lisa's death, Nussbaum (thinly masked as Judith Winograd) is programmed for catastrophe. Her childhood begins with abuse: "Whack. Where were you? Whack. Ma, I got lost. Whack. I told you . . . always to come straight home. Whack...
...wife. How about the middle-aged beautician in Florida who used to hang out at a bar called Madge's? Gave a ride to a drifter one night and wound up with her throat slashed and her body dumped by the railroad tracks. Then there's the Garden Grove, Calif., teenager convicted of shooting her stepmother to death. Now she claims she was coaxed into making a false confession by her father, who, she says, committed the crime in cahoots with her stepmother's sister. Whooo...
...suave young man in a red tie and gray pinstripe suit is seen walking through a grove of trees outside Moscow's Ostankino television center. Vladimir Molchanov, 37, host of the late-night television show Before and After Midnight, is opening his monthly broadcast with an elegiac monologue on the passing of summer. By the time Molchanov has entered the studio, oak branch in hand, Soviet viewers have been treated to brisk, taped reports on an Australian stork breeder, a Japanese horseback-riding robot and the world's largest egg. The 90-minute show also features videos from rock stars...