Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captain Jenny Stone, with a 5-0 record, leads the trio of Crimson racquet women who have posted perfect records for the season. Joining Stone are junior Margo McGlade, 6-0, and first-year sensation Courtney Stimpson...
...backstroke--. Langenahn (C) 29.31; 2. Kudlacik (C) 31.87; 3. Kelley (H) 32.35. 5$-yd. breaststroke--1. Joel (H) 33.14; 2. Droppo (C) 33.81; 3. Poirier (C) 34.90. 100-yd. butterfly--1. Black (C) 1:04.47; 2. McAree (H) 1:06.36; Fortin (C) 1:06.58. One-meter diving--1. Stone(H); 2. Gustafson (C); 3. Vinson...
...face (to which Felker is reported to have asked, "Who was that?"). In Murder, a Felkeresque press lord named Walter Foster loses his empire in an unfriendly takeover. Then, worse fate, he is displaced from his regular table at Elaine's by a younger publishing whiz, Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner, making a cameo appearance under his own name. After a long exile, Foster returns unexpectedly one steamy August night when the restaurant is mysteriously jammed with patrons who ought to be in the Hamptons. The lights go out, a shot is heard and Foster is found under...
...nearly everybody in Elaine's had motives to blue-pencil Foster: unforgotten literary feuds, unhealed editorial schisms, unfavorable reviews, stolen story ideas, purloined wives. It also turns out that Foster's murder-as puzzled out by a hero who blends the best characteristics of hard-drugging Rolling Stone Writer Hunter Thompson and a freelancer named Rosenbaum-has much to do with Watergate. Many journalists consider that scandal their calling's finest hour. Foster, writes Rosenbaum, "caught the crest of the wave of media fever that engulfed mid-Seventies America. Woodward and Bernstein brought down a President; Redford...
...Aborigine who appears in the rain outside his window--a startling image of man's primitive past. Even stranger is a dream he has in which one of the missing defendants in the trial appears in his living room, a savage in a leather jacket, holding a ceremonial carved stone while a low grunting sound emanates from the floor...