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...slight man, his pockets ajangle with quarters, strolled into the Criterion Restaurant in Manhattan Beach, Calif., one afternoon last week and ordered the house specialty, fried zucchini with Parmesan cheese. He then walked to the pay phone and dialed a number in New York City. As he chatted on and on, the telephone rang near by in Manhattan Beach police headquarters. The Brooklyn district attorney's office was calling to ask that the man on the phone in the coffee shop be arrested. The police hustled over, and Sergeant Jack Mair approached the caller from behind. "I tapped...
...often appear before black groups and may not have wanted to go to Miami anyway. But he unnecessarily offended the organization by sending his regrets at the last minute and then taking off on a long-planned vacation in Mexico. When N.A.A.C.P. Chief Benjamin Hooks publicly complained about the slight, Reagan apologized and assured Hooks he had not written off the black vote. He quickly accepted an invitation to address the National Urban League when it meets in New York...
...Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital, where Begin shared an intensive-care room with five other heart patients, doctors confirmed that the Prime Minister had suffered a slight heart attack. They said he should remain in the hospital for two to three weeks, followed by two weeks of further recuperation at home. Despite his history of heart disease-including a major heart attack in March 1977-they predicted that he would be ready to resume his full duties after that. In fact, said ah aide, "we have been assured that he will be able to return to his usual twelve...
There will almost certainly be efforts to get around the patents of others through slight variations. Says James Watson, Nobel laureate and co-discoverer in the 1950s of the double-helix structure of DNA: "It will be awfully hard to show uniqueness, to prove that one man's microbe is really different from another's." That, says J. Leslie Glick, president of Genex Corp. in Bethesda, Md., could lead to modifying bacterial strains mainly for "defensive reasons, a waste of research." Lawyers especially stand to gain if patenting life becomes their way of making a handsome living. Quipped...
...that matter, topspin was viewed as the last refuge of Bobby Riggs trying to win a bet. The patient base-line game has rarely been seen since Jean-RenéLacoste was outfoxing stronger foes in the 1920s. All the elements were there, but the mix awaited a slight Swedish boy and a train of serendipitous events...