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Though Hearns took another terrible beating in the next round, he returned for the eighth not merely a survivor but a boxer. Now the roles were reversed: Hearns was dancing, trying to stay out of Leonard's reach, while the smaller man turned stalker. Slowly, however, Hearns regained his momentum and once again started to carry the judges' cards. At the same time, enmity turned to respect: when the bell rang, the two men no longer tossed late punches and insults but instead saluted each other's courage and skill, tapping gloves fraternally...
...potential troublemakers, spotted a heckler he knew in the crowd and quickly snapped him with his Olympus camera. Unfortunately, when the film was developed, the heckler was nowhere in sight. He had ducked behind the group of President watchers. But Fury did discover someone more intriguing: President-Stalker John W. Hinckley. In the midst of a group of smiling people waiting to see the President, Hinckley (see arrow) looked worried and anxious. The photo, taken an hour before Hinckley's assassination attempt, has nested in FBI files for three months. It was shown to a grand jury, which...
Although President Carter was making a campaign appearance in Nashville the same day, the Secret Service was never told of Hinckley's airport arrest. This may be the first clear, though unheeded, signal of Hinckley as stalker...
...islands are as delightful to the philologist as they are to the bird watcher or plant stalker. All Hawaiian place names have meanings, poetic or factual. Maui's Waianapanapa, site of a 120-acre, stream-laced state park, is "glistening water." There are lao (valley of dawning inspiration), Kapilau (sprinkle of rain on leaves), Lanilili (rippling surface) and Waiakoa (waters used by warrior). Kaanapali is "rolling cliffs." It is comforting when boating off Wailea to know that the "waters [are] governed by Lea," goddess of canoe making. Lahaina is "land of prophecies...
...sounds like a great deal of water being whooshed through a pipe," Judy Stalker, a secretary in the Widener business office who has heard the sound several times, said yesterday...