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...stories, old faces. The reunion party motored a couple of miles away to the site of Camp Stark, now nothing but a clearing at the edge of the White Mountain National Forest, a couple of tumbled stone fireplaces and a new highway marker sketching its history. Historian Koop, who had organized the affair and is writing a book about Stark, spoke of "rugged hills and gentle people" and quoted the truthful remark of one old resident that "yup, things have been kinda slow since they closed the camp." Hartmut Lang, a young official from the German consulate in Boston, said...
Scherrer believes that the squad's performance in its practices as opposed to its showing in actual competition serves as "a marker for how we'll do in the end of the season...
Glancing at his watch, the leader signaled to the others, and the trio, using their flippers to rise, promptly began their ascent by following a cable that led up to the Virazon. Reaching a white marker cylinder at the 20-ft. depth, they stopped, treading water for three minutes, before rising again to a second marker, at the 10-ft. level. There they waited for eleven minutes, passing the time by penciling messages to each other on a roughened Plexiglas tablet. The scheduled pauses were decompression stops that allowed the excess dissolved nitrogen to leave their bodies gradually...
...face had a cartoon-like directness: big mustache, Magic Marker eyebrows, oversize cigar. Yet few TV entertainers were a more intriguing set of contradictions than Ernie Kovacs. A boisterous cutup who relished tacky props and low-down slapstick, yet a closet highbrow who orchestrated comedy to Bartok and Beethoven. A talk-show pioneer, yet the creator of a classic half an hour that included not a single line of dialogue. A TV "star" who never had a network series that lasted more than two seasons, yet who influenced video comedy for the next two decades, from Laugh-In to David...
...landmark Bakke case, the U.S. Supreme Court has tacked back and forth unpredictably on the issue of affirmative action, prompting Reagan Administration lawyers and liberal civil rights activists alike to claim that the results really favored them. Last week, in what may prove to be a decisive course marker, the court struck down by a 5-4 vote a Michigan school-district plan that sought to protect minority hiring gains by laying off white teachers ahead of blacks with less seniority. It was a decision with a bit of something for everyone...