61.   Ms. Van Horne, who later wrote a syndicated column for The New York Post, died of breast cancer, said a friend, Leslie Rubinstein.

62.   No, my friend said, I mean what as a critic would you like to change about the way you and critics in general work?

63.   Ofstedahl downplays the risks of his work and drives himself hard, said a friend, Annie Loyd.

64.   Others said friends or family members had been ill during the year.

65.   Perhaps, say her friends, the thing she feared most was losing that hard-won freedom to think.

66.   Ronald H. Brown, his friends said, dreamed of becoming secretary of state.

67.   Renee Polreis consulted other specialists, including counselors at the Attachment Center in Evergreen, Colo., said a friend, Kathy Brown.

68.   Shanti says her friends all know about her illness.

69.   She died after a long illness and complications from diabetes, said a friend, Vickie Chamberlain.

70.   Sharif gave him only a one-year appointment instead of the usual three, a probationary period that the general found demeaning, said his friend Jabbar.