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...This was the only real blowout here, as the Crimson snagged 1-2 in seven events and first in three others to swamp the Tigers...
...prominent display. Says Margaret Ross, manager of Waldenbooks' magazine department: "We thought they could bring in people we wouldn't usually see -- from early 20s to early 30s, science-fiction and comic collectors, well educated." Writer Alan Moore, author of Watchmen (Warner; 384 pages; $14.95) and Saga of the Swamp Thing (Warner; 161 pages; $10.95), puts the age range higher. From the nine- to * 13-year-old audience he began with in the early '80s, he says, he has shifted to 13 through 40. "People," he observes, "are beginning to take comics seriously...
...drove around the entire 3000-acre retreat, past the swamp to be developed into time-share condominiums, past the children's petting farm and the house Billy Graham was born in (it was relocated there), past the Bunkhouse Hotel where believers can get a three-day vacation every year for the rest of their lives for a one-time donation of only...
...Fidelity Investments, manager of $75 billion worth of stock-market mutual funds, investors redeeming shares or switching to other funds swamp the firm. The company invokes a rarely used rule that allows seven days for such orders to be transacted...
freeboard: the three inches of the shell above the surface of the water. Shells are notoriously easy to swamp with such little protection from rough water or the wakes of passing motorboats...