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...most passionate competitor on the entire team may be a swimmer, Rick Carey, 21, the University of Texas junior, academic all-American, computer whiz and sore loser. "Rick not only hates to lose, he hates to go slow," says Coach John Collins of the Badger Swim Club in Larchmont, N. Y. "It's like he has a devil over his shoulder who drives him to go fast." Carey seems to have put behind him his notorious goggle-throwing days. But then, he has not had much occasion for temper lately. He is the world-record holder in both...
...this ten-year-old called Bastian, played by Barret Oliver, who's so weak he can't even screw the lid off a Welch's grape-jelly jar. Three bullies from school beat him up and make him jump in a trash bin. A total loser. Then he goes up into the school attic and starts reading this book, and it sort of pulls him into the Land of Fantasia. I mean, he's the one who controls the gate of the people in the book. And they are really weird people too. There...
Italy's big loser was Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, whose Socialist Party lost .2% from its 11.4% score in 1983. Craxi in effect had won the Prime Minister's job last Aug. 4 by threatening to force new elections on the reluctant Christian Democrats, who feared a further setback. Now such pressure may not have the same effect: Craxi's days in power could be numbered if the Christian Democrats decide to bring him down. The decline of smaller center groups left the Christian Democrats and the Communists, known in Italy as the "two whales," to continue...
...boyish-looking Reed, who was nicknamed "the Brat" early in his 19-year Citicorp career, seemed like a long shot to be chairman because the consumer division he had directed since 1974 was a big money loser. Prodded by Wriston, Reed had moved aggressively to open consumer-loan offices from coast to coast. He had acquired the Carte Blanche and Diners Club credit-card companies and signed up 2 million new customers across the U.S. for Visa cards...
Still, long shots have surprised before. In 1948 the Democratic candidate was widely dismissed as a sure loser. In 1984 the Democrats can only hope that the pundits are as wrong about Walter Mondale as they were about Harry Truman...