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...undermine the mind of a writer, you couldn't think of a better means than this." She lingered on through cycles of recovery and deterioration for over 15 years, witnessing the success of Paul as a novelist - not missing out, it seemed, on a single turn of the screw. As her final humiliation, she wound up in a psychiatric clinic in Malaga...
...Orioles, who conceivably could finish with the best overall record in all of baseball and still miss the playoffs. Orioles' Owner Edward Bennett Williams, an outspoken critic of the way Kuhn and Owners' Representative Ray Grebey handled the strike negotiations, despaired over the playoffs debacle: "They would screw up a two-car funeral...
...Violence has become an accepted way of life," says Sergeant J.J. Garcia. The slightest insult, real or imagined, provokes a mid-traffic surge for revenge. The protection of turf and machismo honor are the pretexts; baseball bats, screw drivers, knives, cheap guns and especially tire irons are the weapons. Sadly, passers-by are often the innocent victims of this remorseless violence...
...wedding seems to represent a solid, splendidly dramatic investment, like the monarchy itself. "Take away the monarchy from England and you've got just a banana republic," observes Kenneth Greenwood, 52, a former Royal Life Guard who escorted then Princess Elizabeth at her wedding in 1947. "You can screw around with the government here, but you can't screw around with the royal family." Robert Goodden, whose Lullingstone silkworms spun out the stuff of Lady Diana's wedding gown, insists that "very few, outside the extremists, would want to do away with the royal family. The fact...
...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 in the forest to drop the next hat. If I'd had it in 1964, I'd have written three more books by now." Chicago Author William Brashler (The Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings), 33, switched...