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Though he has paid his legal debt to society, Lawrence Singleton spends his days in a vortex of unmade restitution. A convicted rapist who hacked off the forearms of his 15-year-old hitchhiker victim, Singleton, 59, was paroled from a California jail last month after serving nearly eight years of a 14-year four-month sentence. But Singleton, a model prisoner who maintains his innocence, immediately found himself to be a pariah, staying in a string of motels as authorities tried in vain in California, Florida and Nevada to find a welcoming town...
...High School, Hall was employed as a secretary in the Navy Department before moving to the NSC in 1983. She returned to the Pentagon in January, perhaps feeling that never again will she have such an exciting job as her assignment with North. "She felt she was at the vortex of history," says a friend. Her life is not likely to settle down just yet, however. Fawn is in sudden demand as a model, and Actress Farrah Fawcett has called with plans to portray her in a movie. Let's see, Ryan O'Neal could play Arturito, Cliff Robertson could...
Whatever happened to the bottomless mug of coffee? Another True American Tradition is dying in the midst of our decade's backwards swirling vortex of Republican nostalgia and Classic Hits radio...
...could not stomach becoming known as a designer of ubiquitous designer furniture. Less than three months after it was introduced, he withdrew Easy Edges from the market. "I was trying to make the Volkswagen," he says today. "I did, and it worked, and I got carried into a vortex, and I quit...
...centuries Iceland has been far from the vortex of global affairs. Even the story of its founding illustrates its distance from the rest of the world. In 874, so the legend goes, the Viking chieftain Ingolfur Arnarson tossed some wooden pillars out to sea, vowing to settle the land wherever they washed up. They apparently came to rest in a western bay of Iceland, where Arnarson soon established the small fishing village of Reykjavik (meaning Bay of Smoke, after the numerous geothermal springs that supply the city's heating and keep its streets ice-free in winter...