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...finals, where Edythe Bregnard, 63, the "Pixie Poet" of Sun City, Ariz., gave the winning speech, a whimsical look at aging, delivered partly in light verse. Given little chance to win, Bregnard outdid the likes of Erik Burro, a New Jersey video producer who impersonates a bewigged William Penn...
...volubly leaking the news of their thinking in the face of overseas criticism, suggests that some sort of change may really be coming to South Africa at last. What cannot yet be divined is precisely what sort of change is on the way, or at what pace . --By William E. Smith. Reported by Peter Hawthorne and Bruce W. Nelan/Johannesburg
Later Tutu was able to smile at his confrontation with Colonel Nel. "He saluted me," the bishop chuckled. "Twice." --By William Stewart/Daveyton
...William Castelli, director of the 36-year Framingham Heart Study on longevity, declares, "We can show you that for every pound you gain over the 1959 Metropolitan Life tables, your death rate increases 2% over the next 26 years." Until the doctors can resolve their conflicting interpretations, many Americans will find it prudent to hold back on that second helping of pasta . --By Ellie McGrath. Reported by Patricia Delaney/Washington and Barry Kalb/New York...
...tent encampment, a dead German soldier on the road to Rome, the rough justice meted out to Nazi collaborators in France. These stinging images have become a first route of approach to understanding our era. Mydans' work also encompasses the famous faces of the age: Churchill, Truman, Nehru, William Faulkner, Thomas Mann and Ezra Pound. He caught them with an economy that satisfies the requirements of design and psychology in the same camera angle, as when he found the egg-shaped perimeter of Nikita Khrushchev's head sweeping to a comic climax in the dark hole of his open mouth...