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...know how much vacation time he had accrued at the end. Then he died of cancer." The son goes sailing all right -- "only about 365 days a year." A San Diego drapery business Conner acquired through one of his several mentors and patrons must run itself. Stories abound in Perth of the fallen bicyclists and smudged newsboys the captain has randomly scooped up and taken for boat rides, but even Conner's wife Judy wonders whether he is just commemorating himself. "He never relaxes, and we never go on vacations," she says in an interesting reference. "Hell to Dennis would...
Tales of intrigue and adventure abound concerning the tunnels. Perhaps the most famous story about the tunnels is the one about "the Nazi spy" said Robert Tonis, '77, former chief of University police. "When I was in the FBI [in 1939] we had a surveillance of a man who was in this country and was thought to be a German spy." Tonis remembers...
...Harvard Alumni Association has released its list of the 12 official candidates to compete for the six available spots in May's election. Famous names abound. At least one of the official candidates, Louis I. Kane '53, a local businessman, has voiced support for divestment. Several others said they sympathize with the cause. But votes for these candidates, many of whom have some good ideas, will not accomplish a needed reworking of the board...
Sympathetic Dallas fans abound. During his trial, one group of rapturous women was dubbed the "Dallas cheerleaders," and today others are pushing a petition to grant Dallas amnesty. They claim he did no wrong. Norma Hebbel, 61, explains, "Claude did what a lot of people would want to do. They should've given him a medal, not tried...
...paradoxes abound throughout the subject of surrogacy, a notion that speaks to the parental instinct and offends it in the same stroke. So that a father can enjoy a blood relation to his child, the surrogate mother is persuaded to treat the same bond as negotiable. For all the complexities, however, surrogacy is one of the simplest and most venerable of the new conception options. Even the Bible offers a parallel (in the Book of Genesis, naturally). When his wife proved unable to conceive, Abraham impregnated her handmaiden Hagar, who bore Ishmael. There were hard feelings in the aftermath...