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...Isaacson greeted Indianapolis 500 Winner Danny Sullivan with a reassuring smile. But soon Sullivan's grin was a grimace. As rock music pulsated through the gray-carpeted, fluorescent-lighted room, Isaacson put the race-car driver through a grueling 1 1/2-hour workout designed to strengthen his lower and middle back after injuries suffered last summer when his vehicle slammed into a wall at 185 m.p.h. in the Poconos. The punishing session included 20 minutes of fast pedaling on an exercise cycle, 60 sit-ups with a 20-lb. dumbbell across his chest, some stretching, alternate elbow-to-knee...
...frail-looking, 75-year-old nun, winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, thus accomplished what other church and city leaders had failed to do. Although New York offers facilities for AIDS sufferers, neighborhood groups have blocked hospices in their areas. Backed by Mayor Edward Koch and New York's John Cardinal O'Connor, Mother Teresa persuaded Greenwich Village residents to allow St. Veronica's Church to open its rectory to 14 dying AIDS patients. The first three: prisoners from the state penitentiary at Ossining, released by Governor Mario Cuomo...
...biggest winner in over-the-counter stocks was Span-America Medical Systems, a South Carolina manufacturer of foam pads for hospital beds whose shares jumped from 3 1/8 to 22¾. Also among the highflyers were the Gap, the casual-wear retailer, whose stock more than tripled, from 20½ to 62¾; and Tonka, the Minnesota toymaker, whose Pound Puppies and Go-Bots carried its shares briskly along from 10¼ to 27½. On the American Stock Exchange, American Medical Buildings, which had a close brush with bankruptcy in 1984, was the biggest of the big last year. It jumped from...
BORN. To Danuta Walesa, 36, and her husband Lech Walesa, 42, leader of Poland's outlawed independent union, Solidarity, and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Peace, now working most of the time at his old job as an electrician at the Lenin Shipyard: their eighth child, fourth daughter; in Gdansk. Name: Brygida Katarzyna. Weight...
DIED. Jaroslav Seifert, 84, Czechoslovak poet and winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize for Literature, whose lyric verse celebrating everyday life and the love of women was warmly admired in his homeland but little known elsewhere; in Prague...