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DIED. VICKI LAMOTTA, 75, voluptuous blond whose marriage to boxer Jake LaMotta was portrayed in the Martin Scorsese film Raging Bull; in Boca Raton, Fla. At 26, with three children in tow, she left her husband, who had become agitated adjusting to retirement. At 51, after Raging Bull's release, she posed nude for Playboy, saying she wanted to show that life doesn't stop...
...cancer; at his home in Petaluma, Calif. The onetime jazz drummer provided the beat for such hits as White Rabbit and Somebody to Love, but his frequent grumbling and his affair with the group's singer Grace Slick--he regularly threatened to quit the band with Slick in tow--caused tensions, and he left in 1970. He went on to play in other bands, including New Riders of the Purple Sage, before retiring...
Riding into Storrs, Conn. with a four-game losing streak in tow, the Harvard women’s hockey team desperately needed a victory against Connecticut to break the slide. Yet for two periods last night, it didn’t appear as if they would get that...
...love water skiing but hate waiting your turn or finding someone to drive the boat, the Solo may be just what you need. This unmanned, 8-ft.-long fiber-glass boat lets you ski by yourself. All controls are on the tow handle, including acceleration, turning and a stop-start button. For added safety, the kill switch is activated when you drop the handle. Legal in 40 states (see website for information), the Solo goes up to 40 m.p.h...
Aside from the public-opinion debacle, questions still outnumber answers when it comes to the circumstances of the shooting. The bare facts are these: a unit of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment went to the mosque with cameraman Kevin Sites in tow. The mosque had been taken the day before by other Marines, but Sites' unit had heard that insurgents had reoccupied it. As the Marines approached, shots rang out, but they could not tell if the shots had come from the mosque. The widely aired footage shows the Marines entering the mosque, their strides confident but their voices...