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...elect headed home alone in a rented white sedan. The drive was less than two miles; the destination, a neighborhood of older brick ranches and split-levels built before two-car garages came into style. The Browns' house, with Mediterranean arches along its front walk and gun-metal blue trim, is among the nicest on the block. It has a narrow front yard and a paved driveway. Derwin and Phyllis Brown's son, Robert, 18, looked out a front window to see his father, who had parked in the street, walking up the driveway with a bounce in his step...
Remarkably, all the bad headlines have yet to do real damage to Explorer sales. Ford sold a record 445,157 Explorers last year, up 3.8% from 1999. And while the sagging economy and dim outlook for auto sales will force the company to trim production of many vehicles, the Explorer isn't one of them...
...points four different times. But the Crimson would eventually get the lead back up to as much as 16 in the final seconds, as Harvard managed the clock and grabbed plenty of offensive rebounds. The Big Green, meanwhile, could not buy a three-point basket in its effort to trim Harvard's lead, connecting on just 2-of-18 from three-point range in the game...
...later life, Schulz joked that he looked like a druggist. Genial, smiling, with straight white teeth and a head of silver hair, he dressed modestly in muted slacks and pastel golf sweaters. He stood a trim five feet eleven and a half inches ("I never quite got to six feet") and liked to sprawl after work in a big blue leather easy chair, his long legs pointing straight at the TV set. "People say 'Where do you get your ideas?'" he once recalled, "because they look at me and they think, Surely this man could never think of anything funny...
...Antley was also aging. Thirty-four this year, he discovered that his body, characteristically diminutive as jockeys, go, no longer reacted to the regimens he used to keep himself in racing trim. Jim Herzfeld, a screenwriter who lives next door to Antley's home in Pasadena, Calif., recalls that Antley talked about quitting. "He said it was too hard for him, not being able to eat what he wanted," Herzfeld recalls. Antley complained that unlike other jockeys, he had never been very good at "flipping," his term for vomiting to keep the weight off. When the police found...