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Eleven-month-old Matthew Cromwell was listless and had vomit in his hair when his mother picked him up in 1981 at the day care center in Clayton, Calif. Eight hours later he was dead of asphyxiation, apparently caused by blows to the stomach. Dozens of other children, their parents later reported, had come home from the same center with large bruises and emotional scars. Arrested for murder and child abuse, the center's operator, Eleanor Nathan, 36, knew that the only eyewitnesses against her were youngsters. Until lately the testimony of little children was rarely allowed in court...
There are other things that coaches seem to be losing track of. Players, for instance. Rich salaries, not to mention the recreational use some of the money is put to, have weakened the coaches' control and resolve. It seems nothing can test a coach's heart and stomach quite like coming back from a Super Bowl year. Walsh defines the 49ers' failure as "basically an inability to handle success." Though there were some injuries, and only one game was lost by more than a touchdown, he starts the list of downfalls with "arrogance...
When Jeno's Inc. built a frozen-pizza plant in economically depressed Wellston, Ohio (pop. 6,100), last March, city officials were delighted. But they found it hard to stomach the consequences. An estimated 300,000 gal. of pizza waste, made up of excess flour, cheese, pepperoni, tomato paste and meat particles, backed up in Wellston's sewage-treatment plant. The sludge filled one of two 250,000-gal. holding tanks and began to flow into the other. The waste, high in acid content, could not be buried in its gooey form, and the city lacked the equipment...
Marjorie's two roommates come home to this bizarre scene. Terry (Ellen Barkin), having once been raped, has no stomach for reliving it. Patricia (Deborah Hedwall) is a card-carrying pop psychologist who wants to relock the Pandora's box of irrationality. She is given to such phrases as "Define your terms" and "I can relate to that...
Before we go on, a swig of Maalox is indicated. Designed to touch the heart, Six Weeks is a ghoul's delight that collides with the stomach instead...