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PEOPLE: Great Danes of Hollywood; Mike Wallace makes news...
...brassiness is an asset when he's confronting crooked pols on 60 Minutes. But when MIKE WALLACE challenged some New York City cops who were questioning his double-parked limo driver last week, the newsman got arrested for disorderly conduct. The police claimed Wallace, 86, lunged at them. "I find it difficult to lunge into bed," says CBS's gray inquisitor, who was picking up a takeout dinner at the time. But Wallace, who heads to court Oct. 7, got something good from the evening: "The meat loaf was superb...
Prior to their resurgence in 1994, the Yankees were, well, awful. With a lineup stocked with such no-names as Mike Blowers, Mel Hall and Alvaro Espinoza, the Yankees were the laughingstock of the American League, which—while perhaps prompting the occasional chuckle from Boston—provided little fodder for Red Sox fans to either cheer or jeer. Even when New York captured the World Series title in 1996, the response was muted. Another season, like every other since 1918, had come and gone without a World Series victory, but there was little reason to decry that...
Although it's true that more wives have been coaxed--or have leaped--onto the back, getting "the" bike remains mostly a male dream, one that's typically realized after the last kid's college tuition bill. "My dream all my life was to own a Harley-Davidson," says Mike Becar, 57, who directs a police-training organization in Meridian, Idaho. When his five kids were grown, he bought one. His wife of 30 years, Rene, 59, found it scary at first, but now she's his partner in speed and power. "When he named his bike 'Sylvia,'" she says...
Those who do live it describe the experience in poetic and romantic terms reminiscent of Robert Pirsig's philosophical, Beat-biker book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. "You experience everything," says Mike Becar, "mist from a new rain, a meadow of flowers...