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...championship final for the men's 100 breast, Dallas Dr. Pepper's Steve Lundquist outdueled Barrett with a 53.83 to the Nadadore's 54.17. Finishing eight in that race was Dave Lundberg. On leave from Harvard this year. Lundberg represented the Walnut Creek Aquabears...
Hencken plans to marry before the year is out. His fiance. Marie White, is also a successful athlete. She is a member of the National Synchronized Swimming Champion Walnut Creek Aquanuts...
...share a gilded past as "the beautiful daughters of the nervous well-to-do." One remembers: "We were comfortable wherever we went, since anywhere was just like home: the same silk curtains, good oil paintings in heavy gold frames, big pantries and good food, chintz sofas, colored cooks and walnut coffee tables . . ." The girls grow out of these comfortable surroundings and into equally comfortable jobs. They become illustrators or work in bookstores or publishing houses. The men they meet and sometimes marry tend to be solid professional types and good providers...
...burials. Now a Swedish pathologist has designed a new casket that he claims is suited to the less ceremonial 1980s. It is made of wax-impregnated corrugated cardboard and is said to be just as durable as an ordinary pine box. With its outer finish of imitation oak or walnut, it even resembles a wooden casket. Promoters point out that the cardboard model can be shipped flat to reduce transportation costs, conserves scarce natural resources, costs only one-tenth as much as a traditional casket and will start to decompose in about three years...
...haute cuisine, their prescriptions range from the basic soufflé and chicken pot pie to such palate pleasers as cold peach soup, filet of pompano with citrus fruits and pistachio nuts, and filet of veal with crabmeat and wild mushrooms -capped perhaps with a topless chocolate cake or a walnut tart...