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George Clements, 49, pastor of Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church on Chicago's South Side, formally adopted Joey, 13, a boy abandoned since infancy. The move has been in the making since last November when Clements tried in vain to get his parishioners to take in black children, whose adoption rate lags behind that of whites. The priest, an activist who once served as a Black Panthers chaplain, went before his congregation one Sunday and announced from the altar: "All right, if you won't adopt, then I will." Though the Catholic archdiocese was cool to the proposed addition to Clements' flock, it eventually admitted that there was nothing in the church's code of canon law to prevent adoption. Says Joey, happy to move from the orphanage to the rectory, "I'm less independent now, and I think I like that."
Al Fury, 56, was standing outside the Washington Hilton, where he works as director of security. It was a drizzly March afternoon, and President Ronald Reagan was on his way to the hotel to give a speech. Fury, his eye out for potential troublemakers, spotted a heckler he knew in the crowd and quickly snapped him with his Olympus camera. Unfortunately, when the film was developed, the heckler was nowhere in sight. He had ducked behind the group of President watchers. But Fury did discover someone more intriguing: President-Stalker John W. Hinckley. In the midst of a group of smiling people waiting to see the President, Hinckley (see arrow) looked worried and anxious. The photo, taken an hour before Hinckley's assassination attempt, has nested in FBI files for three months. It was shown to a grand jury, which has not yet handed down an indictment of Hinckley. This week Fury unveils the photo to the public for the first time.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, 43, lovable but rumpled president of Yale, comparing himself with dapper Predecessor Kingman Brewster: "I don't have his beautiful suits, but I wouldn't look good in them."
Jack Valenti, 59, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, on why Third World countries do not produce films: "You cannot by edict, bayonet or nuclear threat force somebody to make a good movie."
Pasquale Di Fabrizio, Hollywood's longtime "bootmaker to the stars," reflecting on a pair of boots he once made for then Actor Ronald Reagan: "I recall telling him that those boots would take him anywhere he wanted to go. Look at how right I was."
Vic Ziegel, sportswriter, on how the baseball players' strike has altered his daily routine: "I walk the dog a lot. The only trouble with that is, whenever he scratches behind his left ear, I feel I ought to bunt."
Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, on keeping out of the public eye: "I've been trying for some time now to develop a life-style that doesn't require my presence."