“…We note in this connection the work of Smythe (1973Smythe ( , 1974, Gut (1978Gut ( , 1980, and Lagodowski and Rychlik (1985) on the laws of large numbers, and the papers of Wichura (1973), Li and Wu (1989), Adler (1992), and Li et al (1992) on the law of iterated logarithm for certain partial sums of the independent random variables indexed on K r , the set of all r-dimensional vectors with positive integers as entries. During roughly the same period, building on earlier work of Gnedenko (1943) and Barndorff-Nielsen (1963), a number of authors have studied the stability properties of sample maxima, and other large order statistics, of a sequence of independent identically distributed (i.i.d.)…”