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...Frank Laumer, a Florida entrepreneur, such love (and money) spell opportunity. He knows the Model A inside out, having owned 13 himself and restored numerous others in his mechanic's shop. So he has decided to build brand-new Model A's (the 1930 roadster, coupe and pickup truck) to the original specifications in his barn outside Dade City. A smooth-riding demonstration car stands in the driveway as proof of production. List price...
Bruce Taylor Odell is an enigma. He calls himself a "quiet man," but he is eager to tell stories. He will preface a story with the admonition "this is off the record, deep background," and then spell out all the names in the forbidden episode. He denies any egocentricity, yet, like most people, he seems to like the sound of his own name. After serving as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative for 17 of the last 25 years, he claims to have "come out" in order to "turn the agency around," but he is reluctant to publicly reveal...
...Bostonians, proper or improper, are accustomed to outsize heroes with outsize skills-Ted Williams, Bill Russell, Bobby Orr and, yes, even Jim Plunkett. The quiet, country-bred young man from Ottawa, Kansas (pop. 11,000), resembles none of these demigods; yet he has already begun to exert his own spell on the Hub, its congeries of suburbs and that state of mind known as New England. For beneath his placid exterior, a competitive fire burns. Says Patriot Coach Chuck Fairbanks, who saw it early: "His eyes light up when it's time to play...
...little higher, earned-run averages scarcely lower; the season's dashed hopes are about to be engraved forever in the record books. The failures of this year have yet to be transmuted into "Wait 'til next year." But in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, New York and, after a sinking spell, Kansas City, September had its joys. Division flags were flying. The Big Red Machine still hummed, the Phillies survived themselves, the Yankees were back on top with Billy Martin, the Royals edged into their kingdom. October was at hand, and baseball gets serious with the league play-offs...
...secluded in a ravine. I hardly saw another living presence there, yet I could hear alarming noises, like clandestine signals, before dawn. At night ephemeral animal shrieks passed through the porous walls and around 4 a.m. sporadic double-toned whistles started picking a course down the incline. A bold spell of moonlight walking told me they were merely bats and shepherds...