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...might think the world's greatest all-around swimmer must hail from one of the shrines of the chlorinated In crowd -- Leipzig, Mission Viejo or Moscow. Not so. Tamas Darnyi, 21, lives in Buda, the historic section of Budapest. The Hungarian's specialty is the demanding individual medley, in which he holds the world record for both 400-meter and 200-meter events. Darnyi has won every major meet he has entered since 1985. The medley requires phenomenal skill in backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle. The shy bachelor, who was named Hungary's Athlete of the Year in '87, will...
Meanwhile, a whole generation of middle-class travelers was discovering the civilized pleasures of European cities as well as domestic oases like Washington's cozy Georgetown and Santa Barbara's adobe Pueblo Viejo. In San Francisco, always the belovedly quaint U.S. city, there was the novel Ghirardelli Square, a shopping center created near the Bay from a group of old factory buildings...
...Crimson also added 12 swimmers and a diver: Kyo Bannai of Menlow Park, Calif.; Lea Borkehagen (diver) of London; Lisa Bowman of Mission Viejo, Calif.; Fiona Fox of Charlotte, N.C.; Jill Hutchinson of Madison, Wisc.; Sandy Junta of Summerset, N.J.; Anne Koerckel of Andover; Anne Hardy of Wallingford, Conn.; Nicole Engh of Alameda, Calif.; Heather McCann of Sunveil, Calif.; Maisha Moses of Cambridge; Valarie Mellen of Sea Cliff, N.Y.; Mary Ruppe of Mishawa, Ind.; and Julie Hopkins of Palo Alto, Calif...
...killer since February occurred in the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys of Los Angeles, but in mid-August the Night Stalker moved north to San Francisco, entering a house in the Lakeside district and killing a 66-year-old accountant. Last week he struck in Mission Viejo, an Orange County community 50 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. "My wife said maybe we shouldn't leave all the doors and windows open because of that stalker," recalled Charles Prather of Chrisanta Drive. "I said, 'How many houses are there between here and San Francisco?' " Early the following morning...
...racing permits (9,000 in 1970); 10 million bikes will be shipped to stores for the country's 100 million riders. So it should have come as no surprise that 200,000 flag-waving aficionados gathered by the tile-roofed, half-a-million-dollar ranch homes in Mission Viejo, 50 miles south of Los Angeles, for one of the Games' few admission-free events. After the thrill of Carpenter-Phinney's performance, the crowd was treated to another last-meter dazzler by Alexi Grewal, 23, of Aspen, Colo. The 6-ft. 2-in., 150-lb. Grewal almost...