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DIED. Robert Gottschalk, 64, founder-president of Panavision, Inc., who invented light, noiseless, hand-held cameras and lenses that won him an Academy Award and made "Camera by Panavision" one of the screen's most familiar credits; of stab wounds; in Los Angeles. Police arrested a male houseguest with whom, they say, he had had a "falling...
...Voice of America employees not long ago, he did a fast-delivery imitation of how, as a young radio sports announcer in Iowa with only minimal telegraphed clues, he embroidered on a game he could not see ("The shortstop is going over after the ball and makes a wild stab, picks it up, turns and gets him out just in time"). This showed, he said, how the basic truth can be "attractively packaged." But that is closer to a pitchman's attitude toward facts than a reporter...
...quandary--which Borg himself has forced--is actually a stab-in-the-back irony, considering it was on the Wimbledon grass courts that he won his unprecedented five consecutive titles, establishing himself at least for some as the greatest player of all time. Only eight years ago the teen angel drew the adoring squeals of British schoolgirls, and later the throngs of the tennis world who crowded his Wimbledon appearances. In the following seasons and pilgrimages to the English shrine of tennis, his revolutionary playing style and no-nonsense court side conduct earned him respect and defined professionalism...
...Federal Government's triple-murder charges against Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald have become one of the nation's hardiest legal perennials. The saga began on a winter night at Fort Bragg, N.C., back in 1970. Military police found MacDonald's pregnant wife and two daughters bludgeoned and stabbed to death. MacDonald, then a physician for the Green Berets, lay unconscious in the duplex apartment with 17 stab wounds. He claimed that four "hippie types" had committed the brutal slayings, but Army investigators believed he had expertly stabbed himself with nonfatal wounds to cover a homicidal marital quarrel...
...Lampoon has since 1911 printed joke versions of major American periodicals, including Life. Esquire, Cosmopolitan and-twice in the 1960s--Time But editors indicated that the next stab, though not yet planned in detail, will be "more vicious" than the People spoof...