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...while, it appeared that Gauthier's alma mater would produce another gold medalist as B.C. High graduate-turned-Bruin Chris Hug led led the 400-yd. individual medley going into the final freestyle lap. But the Crimson's Ted Chappell put on a dazzling come-from behind finish to steal the event in 4:10.75, just .47 seconds ahead...
...Grinch did not steal the retail Christmas." So says Ted Grindal, a happy executive with the Minneapolis-based Dayton Hudson specialty and department-store chain, speaking about the 14% sales increase his company rang up in December. While not every retailer did that well, most were pleasantly surprised by the big spending they saw this holiday season. The forecasts for December, in which stores commonly do about 20% of their annual trade, were for very slow business as a result of consumer worries about the economy. But now it appears that, overall, sales ran 5% to 10% ahead of last...
...joking helps distinguish Looking for Work from the 8 trillion or so recent novels about young women trying to find themselves. The chief point of the exercise seems to be fun. No matter how much she protests, Salley is a confirmed flibbertigibbet, her name itself an amusingly pointless steal from a poem by Yeats ("Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet"). Life has given her every advantage, including just the right number of trendy neuroses. Though she claims to spend a large portion of her story job hunting, what she really looks for, and always just...
...your article "Willie's Farewell" [Nov. 12]: this great athlete symbolizes baseball for me and millions of Americans. I saw him chase down a fly to deep center and steal second and third in a game when he was 40 years old. No one could play like Willie Mays. So who's going to begrudge him a few bucks for having his picture taken with some gamblers...
...risk offending a group of voters, or let a rival get a step on them. Thus the presidential candidates have already suffered through a series of mock votes and straw polls of one kind or another. The latest was a "convention " thought up by an advertising man to steal a beat on the New Hampshire primary and hype interest among Republicans. Most of the "delegates" were chosen by lot, and the frolic had no status whatsoever. The report of TIME'S 'Miami correspondent Richard Woodbury...