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...stay close, due to the gutsy performance of long-distance freestyler Shelby Calvert. The junior from the Marshal Islands--who recently transferred from West Point--swam back-to-back races, placing first in the 1000-yd. free (10:46) and second in the 200-yd. freestyle by a scant four seconds. Ironwoman Calvert later won the 500 free in 5:13 as Harvard dominated the long-distance events...
Steinberg and his partners made scant effort to hide their wealth. At restaurants they ordered $400 bottles of wine. At Steinberg's $400,000 home were parked a Maserati, a Lamborghini, a Ferrari and the inevitable Rolls-Royce. One of Steinberg's partners gave a Mercedes to a girl he barely knew...
...campaigned dutifully last month for Republican gubernatorial Candidates Marshall Coleman in Virginia and Thomas Kean in New Jersey. Both party hopefuls returned the embrace. As Kean said during the campaign: "We have got to do in New Jersey what President Reagan has been doing in Washington." But there was scant evidence that voters in either state saw their contests as a sort of large-scale Gallup sampling. The races were just as plausibly a referendum on departing New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne, who angered taxpayers by allowing a new 21,000-seat state sports facility to be named the Brendan...
...week's end, NASA officials rescheduled the launch for this Thursday after determining that the oil systems were in working order. This was scant consolation to the Detroit News. A front-page story headlined COLUMBIA DOES AN ENCORE appeared in some of last Wednesday's editions, describing the "perfect launch" in glowing detail. This week with a little luck and good Floridian weather, both the News and NASA might get it right...
...went to a bookstore and bought a history that said the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1827 or World War I began in 1905, you'd be pretty angry." If followed too long, the Beverly Hills Diet may lead to diarrhea, and although medical evidence is scant, doctors warn of other complications...