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After two races against the Australian Kookaburra (a bush bird of prey sometimes called a "laughing jackass"), this game stood 2-0 for Conner in the best-of-seven final. Most depressing for the Australians, the lighter breezes they had prayed for all month materialized the first day, but the boat thought to be nimbler was outmaneuvered all the same. Winds that routinely topped 20 knots in the trials eased abruptly to eight or ten. Effectively the yachtsmen were back in Newport, R.I. Breaking neatly in front, Conner never rounded any buoy less than 40 seconds ahead...
...alley near the Continental Trailways station. "Those damn chumps," he says, gritting his teeth, "took every goddam penny. I'm gonna kill 'em." Violence is a constant threat to the homeless. It's only a matter of time before newcomers are beaten, robbed or raped. The young prey on the old, the big on the small, and groups attack lonely individuals in the back alleys and subway tunnels. After it's over, there is no one to tell about the pain, nothing to do but walk away...
...week's most daring escapade. Disguised as Lebanese police, they drove unchallenged onto the campus of Beirut University College, gathered four professors, three of them Americans and the other an Indian-born man carrying a U.S. passport, and drove off, holding guns to the heads of their stunned prey...
...rangy sunflower or the homespun black-eyed Susan. "Most of the beautiful roses we cherish are European roses," said Stanwyn Shetler of the National Museum of Natural History, who testified against the rose and advocated, instead, the phlox. Moreover, like many homegrown American products, the new symbol is prey to foreign infestation, the rose's principal enemy being the Japanese beetle. Despite a few cavils, there seems little doubt that President Reagan will sign the bill. Being a master of the symbolic gesture, Reagan will surely do the honors on his home turf: the White House Rose Garden...
...meeting with Botha that one of King's aides brought the message that she would not keep the appointment. The President said her absence was caused by "those who find themselves in a make-believe world of political fraud." For his part, Buthelezi charged that King had fallen prey to the "internecine political feuding which so lamentably characterizes black South African politics...