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...padded flooring. The palms of her hands are coated with gymnasts' chalk that is as white as her uniform, as white as her face. She is an infinitely solemn wisp of a girl, 4 ft. 11 in. tall, a mere 86 Ibs.; dark circles above her cheeks; a Kean-eyed elf. Then, with no more strain than it would take to raise a hand to a friend, she is airborne: a backflip, landing on the sliver of a bar with a thunk so solid it reverberates; up, backward again, a second blind flip, and a landing. No 747 ever...
...most from the rising cost of imported oil. Many East Coast utilities have stopped accepting neV gas customers and are sending warnings to industrial users to expect drastic curtailments of supplies. Many large gas users are converting to fuel oil at a vastly higher cost. In New Jersey, John Kean, president of the Elizabethtown Gas Co., warns of "the gas industry's Pearl Harbor this winter...
...preserved. Two hundred years hence he is heated 'n' served in an America that has managed to preserve only that which is ghastly in our own culture: a political leader who only appears before the public mouthing pious platitudes on TV, Rod McKuen's poetry, Walter Kean's paintings, McDonald's hamburgers and vegetables, which have carried the current trend toward tasteless giganticism to its logical extreme-strawberries as big as medicine balls, bananas taller than...
...police set up a roadblock just outside the civic center, Jim Kean, 47, a photographer for the San Rafael Independent-Journal, who had heard the alarm on a police radio in his car, arrived in the building and practically collided with the escaping gunmen. "You take all the pictures you want," said one. "We are the revolutionaries." As they briefly discussed whether or not to take Kean hostage as well, he and his Independent-Journal colleague Roger Bockrath caught an astonishing series of photographs (see following page). The gunmen decided to leave Kean behind. They walked out into the warm...
...name speaker who drew the crowd on March 5 was that Cape Town heart surgeon. So, says Kean: "Indirectly, Dr. Christiaan Barnard was responsible for this epidemic...