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...DIED. LINDA BOREMAN, 53, better known as Linda Lovelace, star of the notorious 1972 sex flick Deep Throat who later turned antiporn activist, of injuries from a car crash; in Denver, Colorado (see Eulogy). DIED. PAM BAKER, 71, gutsy lawyer and human rights activist; in Macclesfield, England. Baker spent 19 years in Hong Kong championing the rights of battered women and underprivileged mainlanders as well as trying to secure refugee status for Vietnamese boat people. HONORED. PAU GASOL, 21, as the National Basketball Association's Rookie of the Year; in Memphis, Tennessee. A native of Spain, the 2.13-m starting...
...known that he had started life as a mill hand at 13 shillings a week. He never bothered to tell them that his father owned the factory he worked in or that he rested nightly from his labors in a large estate known as Upton Grange in Macclesfield...
...pubs around Macclesfield, in England's Cheshire, the regulars have been gassing for years about old John Alcock. Oldsters could still recall the day in 1902 when John, then 62, walked backwards the whole twelve miles from Macclesfield to Buxton, and turned the trick in 3 hr. 14½ min. Last week a relative newcomer named Russell Wright, 46, set out to better old John's time over the same course...
...downhill parts of the Buxton road gave Wright the most trouble. He had to lean sharply toward Macclesfield to keep from falling flat. But with a couple of forward-walking friends for company (see cut), Wright backtracked to a modern local record,* 3 hr. 14 min., half a minute better than John Alcock's time...
...dark day in Macclesfield. The report spread that Jim's blooms had withered on their stalks, and the local bookmakers waited grimly to pay out their cash. But the fixers never collected. As Macclesfield's flowers went to the post, Champion Jackson, still in good form, entered six substitute plants in the show and romped home an easy winner with two silver cups and 20 prizes...