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DIED. Marvella Bayh, 46, vivacious blond wife of Democratic Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana and ardent fund raiser for the American Cancer after her own bout with the disease began in 1971; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. An Oklahoma beauty queen, Marvella Hern met her husband when she defeated him in the finals of an American Farm Bureau speaking contest. Known to Indiana friends as Marvelous Marvella, Bayh survived a 1954 auto accident that left her partially blinded for three years, a plane crash ten years later in which she and Edward Kennedy were injured, and the trauma...
...They are usually led by the Communists. But the majority of our Arab people are loyal citizens. We have had five wars, yet there has not even been one case of disloyalty by our Arab minority during the wars. Of course, I cannot say that they are the most ardent Zionists in the world, but we should accept their loyalty. Above all, we want to give them the feeling that they are living in freedom and equality. We want to improve their economic situation. But I can say that the Arab minority in Israel enjoys a better economic situation than...
Rumors of marital troubles surfaced when Brandt went to a private clinic in the south of France, while his wife stayed behind in Bonn. Accompanying Brandt was Seebacher, an ardent SPD activist who had written speeches for him and acted as his appointments secretary until his illness. At the French clinic where Brandt was recuperating, she helped him to stop smoking and to limit his drinking to one glass of wine a day. When Brandt reappeared in West Germany two weeks ago, looking more fit and cheerful, he told friends he intended to marry Seebacher. Said he: "I am determined...
...Komiteh's militia, the so-called Islamic Guard, will be melded into a secular national guard commanded by a council headed by Deputy Prime Minister Ibrahim Yazdi, Khomeini's most ardent backer in the Bazargan government...
playwrights together is a spontaneous and frequently ribald sense of humor, a robust zest for life and, in emotional terms, the quality F. Scott Fitzgerald called "a willingness of the heart." The ardent workers and supporters of Louisville's Actors Theater certainly share that willingness...