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...home to their apartment in a Cincinnati suburb one evening last October when two young men stopped them, ostensibly to ask directions. Suddenly, the men grabbed Riethmiller and dragged her to a waiting van, squirting Mace in Thiemann's face to prevent her from following. As the van sped off, the terrified Riethmiller discovered that her father William was among her kidnapers. He recalls: "Stephanie looked up and I said, 'Hi, Stephanie.' And she said, 'Hi, Dad.' I said, 'Everything...
With Jimmy Connors dynamoed-out, Roscoe Tanner permed-out, and Vitas Gerulaitis sped-out, Wimbledon hardly promises the stellar quality of tennis it has provided in the past two years. After all, Mac Attack was pressed to reveal his shot-making legerdemain because of the fierce competition provided by arch-rival Borg...
...bizarre ending for this eldest son of an Albanian immigrant who had become a Chicago restaurateur. (Another son, Jim, followed his brother into revue and TV comedy.) Always restless and volatile, John sped through a typical Midwestern youth: football, rock-band drummer high school high jinks, a brief spell at the University of Michigan. Later, he married (and stayed married to) his high school sweetheart, Judith Jacklin. In the early '70s he joined Chicago's Second City troupe, and after playing in a Manhattan revue, National Lampoon's Lemmings, was hired...
...private" dinner late Saturday night in his Politburo office in the Kremlin. Never mind that we had just eaten?a social invitation by the General Secretary could not be refused. Our minds addled by a 15-hour plane trip and our bellies distended by a Russian dinner, we sped to the Kremlin. Brezhnev received us in what looked like a Churchill jumpsuit in sky blue. He did not neglect to remind me that...
...Aswan I sped to Sadat's rest house. "Welcome, Henry," he greeted me; his use of my first name was new. In his study he signed the U.S. proposal defining the limitations of armaments behind both lines. I then handed him a letter from Golda, which said in part: "Peace is the goal toward which we must direct all our energies. Let me reiterate what you said in your message: When I talk of permanent peace, between us, I mean...