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...number of retired athletes, brought along as "goodwill ambassadors," being in Moscow produced a bittersweet sensation. "The hardest part for me," Gaines admitted, "was walking into the swim stadium for the first time. Immediately, I looked at Lane 4, the lane for the fastest qualifier, and slowly my eye went back and forth, back and forth." Like dreamy children, the swimmers Gaines and Steve Lundquist, the basketball player Ann Meyers, the triple jumper Willie Banks, among others, spoke in favor of peace at an extraordinary press conference whose subjects ranged from a reunion of the Apollo-Soyuz spacemen...
...others: James Henry Lane of Kansas, 1866; Frank Brandegee of Connecticut, 1924; and Lester Hunt of Wyoming...
...that Qaddafi is beyond terrorism. But if Libya is really responsible, why aren't we the people allowed to see the proof? Are we simply to take for fact the claims of a president who deliberately lied about U.S. medical students being endangered in Grenada two years ago? Lane Kenworthy Summer School Proctor Lionel...
...money losing. This week Hefner is closing the three remaining (out of a high of 17) Playboy-owned clubs, in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. Reunions in the latter two last week brought out more than 300 present and former bunnies for a final hop down memory lane. "There was glamour, there was excitement. We met a lot of stars," reminisced Liz Kay, who helped open the Chicago club in 1960. A nostalgic Hefner, 60, made the West Coast party and called the bunnies and clubs "a reflection of something very special that was part of the swinging...
...songs sound punchy all right, real straight-ahead, pedal-to-the-floor rock with no fancy instrumentation, just the sort of thing to come floating back from the window of a car that is moving too fast in the passing lane. Simple, direct, traditional, without the calculated callowness of retro rock. Despite the modest claims of Neumann and Llanas, the echoes of the BoDeans' music cut past the surface calm. These tunes have a strong undertow...