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...California. "Tom wanted more military recruiters," Leyden recalls. "They started sending me literature." And he worked hard for his cause, recruiting at least four fellow travelers, who then went off to other bases. The Marines finally reacted when he had Nazi storm-trooper lightning bolts tattooed on his neck. In a 1990 evaluation his superior officer wrote, "Loyalty is questionable, as he willingly admits to belonging to a radical group called 'skinheads.'" Leyden then received an "other than honorable" discharge, for what the military dubbed "alcohol-related" misbehavior...
After one of the most agonizing of journeys to the Olympics, one that sportswriters called "epic," you'd think Dan O'Brien would have soldered his gold medal to his neck. But shortly after winning the decathlon, O'Brien lost the medal. He put it in a gym bag, which he left in the back of the vehicle that took him to his car. Luckily, Jim Reardon, his sport psychologist, retrieved it. After all, O'Brien couldn't be expected to wait another four years...
...beauty of the game is that it traces the arc of life. Until mid-August, baseball was a boy in shorts whooping it up in the fat grass. Now it becomes a leery veteran with a sunbaked neck, whose main concern is to protect the plate. In its second summer, baseball is about fouling off death...
RECOVERING. EMERSON FITTIPALDI, 49, two-time Indy 500 winner, after surgery to correct a broken bone in his neck suffered when he crashed into a wall at the Marlboro 500 in Michigan. Doctors say he can resume racing, but Fittipaldi thinks otherwise: "I had a message from the Lord...It looks like I'm not going to race again...
Sick or just tired, Yeltsin is due to emerge into the public eye on Aug. 9, the day he will be inaugurated--crowned might be a better word--in a sumptuous ceremony. The Order for Services to the Fatherland will be draped around his neck. Our President, a cantata commissioned for the occasion and performed by artists of the Bolshoi Theater, will urge Yeltsin to "bear the light of freedom down the years to the world...