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With a stultifyingly middle class background and warped by the usual subtle psychological complications, Bundy appeared to be the dream-model for many good American families' plans for their sons. He was good-looking and charming, a stylish Boy Scout grown to adulthood. He was a promising psychology and law student, a bright light in the future of the Washington state Republican Party, and a sensitive psychiatric social worker. Yet he was also possessed by what he called his "little problem," which rode him even as his career in politics began to accelerate. Occasionally it would drive him to cruise...
Ford--who once played for the Detroit Cougars in the NASL--has been associated with the Denver organizers for almost five years. Recently, when the Avalanche became one of four expansion teams in the one-year-old MISL, he became a chief scout in New England...
...these nervous freshmen. MIT hasn't told them jackshit about anything. They're all sitting there stuffing down hamburgers and all of us, we're sort of lurking on the sidelines, waiting. Sometimes we even send some people in, to infiltrate and scout around. Then a guy stands up--the adrenalin is really flowing now--and right at 6 p.m. he yells, 'Let Rush begin...
...Voelpel, an Eagle Scout and eternal optimist, still doesn't have it in him to give up yet. "They're a good young team, and they have a core of players that will be around for a long time. One of these years they're going to get some pitching. . . .I think they're going to be in the World Series within five years...
Jeffrey Brown, 11, came home from a Cub Scout meeting in Dedham, Mass., one day last spring feeling sick. He had vomited, and by next morning was lethargic and complaining that his neck hurt. Jeffrey seemed to be coming down with a sore throat, but soon his temperature reached 106° F (41° C). A lymph gland in his neck swelled to golf-ball size, his lips and tongue turned strawberry, and scarlet blotches appeared on his chest and back. Jeffrey's illness: a perplexing and long unrecognized childhood malady called Kawasaki disease...