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These authors praise their new ability to delete and move words and paragraphs at the touch of a few keys, and to enjoy automatic pagination, footnoting and regular book-quality right-hand margins. Novelist Stanley Elkin (The Living End), 51, professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, was given the use of a $13,000 Lexitron by the school. Even before he was disabled by the disease, claims Elkin, the processor would have accelerated his output: "You don't have to screw around erasing and crossing out, finding a clear place...
...runs Tiffany," Walter Hoving used to say, but there was never any doubt as to who was His right-hand man. Now, after 25 years as chairman of that most divine of jewelry stores, Hoving, 83, has stepped down-but not, mind you, to stop working. In a starched white apron and starchier style, Hoving bustled through his own retirement party, tirelessly ladling eggnog for employees and friends. He took time out only to accept a sterling silver tray, his farewell gift, and to comment on his next professional endeavor: dispensing pearls of wisdom to U.S. firms...
...scandal is the country's biggest since the Lockheed bribery fiasco that forced President Giovanni Leone to resign two years ago. It has already brought almost 100 arrests, and has cast suspicion on the martyred figure of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. Reason: his right-hand man, Sereno Freato, 52, has been questioned about accumulating $17 million worth of investment properties during four years when he declared only $7,500 in annual taxable income. In addition, the scandal has also given the Communists and other opposition groups ammunition against the five-week-old government of Christian Democratic Prime Minister...
...straight running plays--three to Jim Acheson (Connors' replacement), two to Tom Beatrice and two to Jim Callinan--methodically moving the Crimson to the Penn 35. A screen pass to Acheson picked up 17 more and with 1:51 left in this cathartic quarter. Buckley hit Callinan in the right-hand corner of the endzone for a 13-yd. scoring strike...
...Sugar Ray Leonard and four other U.S. gold medalists in 1976. But Teofilio Stevenson, 29, was once again on hand to play wrecking ball to the heavyweight division. Although rumored to be out of shape, the regal Cuban knocked out his first opponent, Nigerian Solomon Ataga, with one lethal right-hand punch and then considerately helped him to his corner...