Word: lunde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ERIC by DORIS LUND 345 pages. Lippincott...
...wits long enough during a remission to write Stay of Execution about his own plight before he died. Football Player Brian Piccolo's death became first a fond memoir by his friend Gale Sayers, then a TV film called Brian's Song. Now Freelance Writer Doris Lund offers Eric, a book about her son's successful four-year struggle to live courageously as this disease slowly destroyed...
Radcliffe fired first at goalie Brad Elmblad and missed, but Eliot's Jim McKinnan found an opening for a 1-0 lead. Radcliffe missed its second try, and once again Eliot came through, this time Tony Lund was the scorer. Both squads made their third shots count, but Radcliffe missed its fourth and so lost the penalty contest 3-1 and the contest 2-1. Tony Starr tallied what proved to be the game-winner for Eliot, which finished the season...
...star but with ourselves. In an epoch of uncertainty, people need a fraud they can believe in. Magic, with its cheerful promise of mountebankery, offers a kind of low comic relief. An audience that is fooled invariably laughs, delighted that its attention has been misdirected. To Magician-Historian Robert Lund, it is "a rebellion against science." To James Randi, it is "a sign that our society is still healthy. When people stop being enthralled by a magician who can make a lady vanish, it will mean that the world has lost its most precious possession: its sense of wonder...
...Lund nonetheless shook up staid Cadillac, and just in time, since the energy crisis (which he calls an "energy situation") hammered sales down badly early this year. He launched an advertising campaign in which Cadillac, of all cars, boasts of its gas mileage (15.8 m.p.g. under picture-perfect proving-ground conditions). He started a dealer sales contest, something unheard of at Cadillac in two decades. Prize: a week in Hawaii for 211 winners. In February he brought out Cadillacs in three new spring colors: Lido Green, Pueblo Beige and Mandarin Orange. Result: from a low of 11,581 in February...