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...catch him?' " Miguel, his younger brother, was also uncertain. Says he: "It all happened so fast that only when I looked down and saw the floor did I know that we had done the trick." Actually, what the Flying Vazquezes accomplished together on July 10 in Tucson was much more than a trick. It was an athletic feat equivalent to the breaking of the 4-min. mile: the first quadruple somersault performed before a regular circus audience...
That diatribe is not from one of Andrew Greeley's critics. It is from Greeley himself, mimicking and mocking his detractors. He has plenty to choose from. Some of the Greeley haters may be simply envious: the author owns a sunny, three-bedroom house in Tucson, where he spends a semester each year teaching sociology at the University of Arizona. He keeps a two-bedroom condominium on the 47th floor of the chic John Hancock Center in Chicago, where he conducts widely respected studies at the National Opinion Research Center. And he has a beach cottage on Lake Michigan...
...responsible researcher foresees such catastrophic consequences from El Chichón. But there are troubling signs. A huge smoglike cloud from the volcano has been spotted at scattered locations around the globe. At the Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, astronomers say the brightness of stars has been reduced by 40%, and volcanic dust has created garish sunsets over wide areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Says Atmospheric Physicist James Pollack, of NASA's Ames Research Center, which has used U-2 aircraft to collect samples of El Chichón's dust: "This is the biggest volcanic cloud...
...graduates this past winter. They regard each recruit from Caltech as a "capture," in the jargon of the business, to be treasured and pampered. Kenneth Sieck, 22, has talked with 20 aerospace company recruiters and has taken six plant tours, including a visit to an IBM facility in Tucson, complete with rental car, dinner and lunches. At Northrop Aircraft, company officials proudly showed him their latest equipment...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Herbert Armstrong, 89, autocratic founder of the Worldwide Church of God (membership: 68,000 tithing believers); and Ramona Armstrong, 44, his second wife; after five years; in Tucson, Ariz. They were married one year after Armstrong changed church laws against divorce and remarriage...