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...Alton M. Motter Williamsport...
Sheriffs deputies and state troopers launched an extensive land-and-air search. Melvin Grafton, 49, a nephew, hired a local water dowser to wring what tips he could from a road map. Nothing worked. Just when everyone was braced for the worst, state police located the elderly couple in Alton, Ill., 160 miles south of Carman. Everyone assumed the Graftons were lost. Not at all, said Russell. "I don't understand what the fuss is about. We were just traveling around...
...There was no place she'd been by the age of 15") prostitutes herself to get to Buenos Aires. ("There has never been a lover...who hasn't an eye on...tricks he can try on his partner.") After becoming a radio star, Eva meets Colonel Juan Peron (Robb Alton). ("I've heard so much about you.") With her advice and encouragement, he leads a workers' uprising ("The chains of the masses untied") that vaults him to the Argentinian presidency ("Peron! Peron!") Eva wins the love of her descamlsados (shirtless ones) and initiates a not solely charitable foundation ("Thank...
...Alton's Peron is a Machiavellian, if occasionally befuddled, politician. And R. Michael Baker's Che stands as a deserving counter-Force to Alstay's Evita. He's on stage almost throughout the show, jumping, running, kneeling--seldom content to stand silently as Evita becomes increasingly popular and disingenuous...
Meanwhile, the verdict puts new pressure on journalists to play it safe. In the past two years, multimillion-dollar libel verdicts have been returned against the National Enquirer, Penthouse and the tiny (circ. 37,557) Alton (Ill.) Telegraph, which had to file for bankruptcy protection while it negotiated a settlement of the $9.2 million award against it. For such small press enterprises in particular, even the legal fees involved can be destructive. The Tavoulareases so far have spent $2 million on lawyers to fight the case, and the Post's defense has cost $1 million. Bills on such...