NOTEBOOK

By KATHLEEN ADAMS; CHARLOTTE FALTERMAYER; LINA LOFARO; JANICE M. HOROWITZ; JEFFERY C. RUBIN; ALAIN L. SANDERS; SIDNEY URQUHART

WINNERS & LOSERS

LAW AND ORDER

[WINNERS]

ENID GREENE (EX-WALDHOLTZ) It is so, Joe! Criminal probe of Utah Rep is off. And she can't lose an election she's not in

BROWN AND GOLDMAN FAMILIES In the face of new blood and car-chase evidence, O.J. must wonder what's next

A.C.L.U. Persuades judge to strike down D.C.'s kid curfew. Hey, the kids are all right. And have rights

[& LOSERS]

JENNY JONES Say what? Testifies in gay-crush case that she knows little about how her show is produced

JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA No constitutional right to die, he says, inadvertently prejudging case on high-court docket

RICHARD THOMPSON Never can say goodbye. Foiled repeatedly, he's prosecuting Dr. Kevorkian again. Good luck

NAZI LEATHER, BUY ANY OTHER NAME...

The boots and bags are black, shiny and made of tough hide--tough enough to be labeled "Nazi leather" by some enterprising salesfolk. The words are offensive to begin with. But in Israel, where the Holocaust is living memory, they are abominable. The daily Yediot Aharonot created a stir as it revealed the use of the appellation by a boutique belonging to the trendy Tel Aviv chain Grosso Modo. To reporter Sigalit Shahor's astonishment, a clerk boasted, "It is high quality and doesn't get dirty--all the boots worn by the Nazis in World War II were made of this material." One journalist wrote, "Today we sell Nazi black, tomorrow it can be SS green, and the day after Hitler brown...Good Lord, what have we come to?" At last word, the store's management hinted it would stop using the name.

HEALTH REPORT

THE GOOD NEWS

--Sean Connery, Bruce Willis and other macho men with shiny pates may be shocked to learn that the female sex hormone estrogen could play a role in their HAIR LOSS. Preliminary research indicates hair grows when an estrogen-blocking ointment is applied to the follicles of bald mice. The finding may lead to new treatments for hair loss.

--Simple blood tests can identify which patients with acute chest pain are likely to die from a heart attack. The tests detect proteins called cardiac troponins that are released by damaged heart muscle. Results are available in minutes, allowing doctors time to intervene.

--Women who have used hormone-replacement therapy may cut by a third their risk of developing ALZHEIMER'S disease.

THE BAD NEWS

--Grumpy old men had better watch their tempers. Those who have trouble controlling anger have three times as much risk of suffering a HEART ATTACK as mellower types. In personality tests, the men say they're irritable and hot-headed and generally have a desire to smash things.

--As if lung cancer, heart disease and wrinkled skin were not enough, research finds that SMOKERS may also have double the risk of losing their teeth.

--A consumer group warns that restaurants serve far larger portions--with more FAT AND CALORIES--than what the government considers normal serving size. A portion of French fries should weigh 3 oz., containing 220 calories, yet most establishments dish out helpings twice that size.

Sources--GOOD NEWS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science; New England Journal of Medicine; Archives of Internal Medicine BAD NEWS: Circulation; American Association of Public Health Dentistry; Center for Science in the Public Interest

OLYMPICS: THE AGONY OF VICTORY

Three months after Atlanta managed to stage the biggest Olympic Games ever, the extravaganza remains marred by a controversial FBI bombing investigation. Meanwhile, organizers are struggling to show a small surplus even as endorsement contracts for top athletes remain scarce. And some gold medalists have encountered serious bad luck in their post-Olympic lives:

David Douillet, 27, France The heavyweight judo champion was injured in a highway motorcycle accident a month ago just outside Paris. The injuries to his right leg and shoulder have forced him to sit out all training since the accident. He is not expected to return to the mat for at least five months.

Josia Thugwane, 25, South Africa A hero's welcome turned into a nightmare for the marathoner and poor mine-maintenance worker when he ran straight into death threats from local thugs as a result of his new fame and presumed fortune. Thugwane has moved into a protected house on the mine property and travels with bodyguards.

Alexander Popov, 25, Russia Returning from a party with friends, the Olympian swimmer got into a late-night street fight in Moscow with watermelon vendors in August, during which he received a serious stab wound. Though thinner, he has recovered from emergency surgery and plans to resume training.

Nwankwo Kanu, 20, Nigeria Recent tests have apparently revealed that the soccer star suffers from a weak aortic valve. In an attempt to salvage a promising professional career with one of Italy's top soccer teams, he is consulting with specialists and exploring the possibility of surgery.

TURNING OUT THE VOTE

Turnout in some recent presidential elections as a percentage of voting-age population

URUGUAY 95% BENIN 88 ICELAND 87 SLOVENIA 85 CHILE 79 COSTA RICA 79 ARGENTINA 79 BRAZIL 78 PORTUGAL 77 ISRAEL 76 UNITED STATES 55

Voting in some of these countries is compulsory Source: International Foundation for Election Systems

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

PETER Z. MALKIN, 67; NEW YORK CITY; Captor of Adolf Eichmann Israel stunned the world on May 23, 1960, by announcing that it had brought Adolf Eichmann to Jerusalem for trial. The architect of Nazi Germany's Final Solution--the extermination of the Jewish race--had been in hiding since escaping from a POW camp in 1946. Despite the lid of secrecy clamped on the operation--and misinformed speculation in the press--word gradually leaked out about its details. However, Malkin, the Mossad agent who seized Eichmann as he walked home from a bus stop in a suburb of Buenos Aires, kept quiet about his role until 1990, when he co-wrote Eichmann in My Hands. It is now a TV movie, to be aired Sunday. An accomplished painter who commands up to $40,000 a canvas, Malkin lives in New York City and Tel Aviv and says the highlight of his career was not, in fact, catching Eichmann (who was executed in 1962) but his undercover work in countering terrorism. Says he: "The most important act is to save people's lives. Capturing Eichmann was history."

44 YEARS AGO IN TIME

A Star Is Born

Fresh from co-starring with Charlie Chaplin in Limelight, Claire Bloom, 21, was being hailed as the London stage's exquisite new Juliet: "She has always known what she wanted. She was reciting Shakespeare at five. Her mother...recalls that Claire would have nothing to do with dolls, that in fact she hated dolls. She didn't much like other children either...She was not exactly popular with her classmates. One of them remembers 14-year-old Claire as 'sort of fey--she didn't have her feet on the ground at all. You'd be talking to her and suddenly she'd do a pirouette and you knew she hadn't been listening to you.' Nevertheless, the classmate felt bound to add, 'Most girls look like puddings at that age. Claire never did.'" --Nov. 17, 1952

--By Kathleen Adams, Charlotte Faltermayer, Janice M. Horowitz, Lina Lofaro, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders and Sidney Urquhart