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...started out like a routine call. Police in Columbus received a tip that a man was loitering outside a north-side town house. When the officers arrived, the intruder was inside with a ski mask and an array of burglary tools. Arrested was an improbable suspect: Dr. Edward Jackson, 38, a prominent local internist. The case be came even more improbable after the police searched Jackson's car. There they found a long list of rape victims, leading them to believe that Jackson was the "Grandville rapist," suspected of nearly 100 assaults in that affluent neighbor hood. Last week...
...same old story: older woman in a mauve Lycra ski suit falls in love with young medical student with a full head of hair on the slopes near Lake Tahoe. In Forbidden Love, a CBS-TV movie to be aired next season, Yvette Mimieux, 39, fits the role of the older woman with nearly the same aplomb that she fits the Suzy Chapstick getup. "It's an outfit that I thought would appeal to a student of anatomy," says Mimieux. Or for that matter, a student of architecture, a student of air-conditioner repair, a student...
...hardened countryman. Hayes Noel, 40, a trader on the floor of the American Stock Exchange in Manhattan, took the hell-yes position. The hell-no side was defended by Gaines, a novelist (Stay Hungry, Dangler) and writer for outdoor magazines, and Bob Gurnsey, 39, a New Hampshireman and sometime ski-shop owner...
...Americans think the eruption of Mount St. Helens ended the U.S. volcano threat, they may be in for another shock. California's scenic Mammoth Lakes ski resort area, a few miles east of Yosemite National Park, has been jolted by a series of moderately strong earthquakes since 1978. At first seismologists of the U.S. Geological Survey thought the only risk was more quakes. Now they suspect that there may be a danger in the area of a volcanic eruption...
...hear about a space shuttle in every garage before the end of the century is true, learning the basics is probably inevitable, and Harvard should teach them efficiently and fairly. Perhaps then some of those poor souls throwing away their guaranteed student loans on Pac-Man and Alpine Ski could be lured into more productive space-age pursuits...