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...idea for the fund "spontaneously generated" after Fletcher's death in June, said Fairbank. He and seven other faculty members, mostly from the East Asian Studies Department-including former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, Barker Professor, of Economics formed a temporary committee to begin the long process of raising money...
Martina Navratilova overpowered Sue Barker, 6-2, 6-0 and Kathy Ripaldi defeated veteran Virginia Wade, 6-2, 6-2 last night to give the United States a 2-0 lead over Britain in the 60th anniversary Wlightman Cup tennis competition...
...long prison terms they face in their homeland for high-altitude high jinks. "We are trying to tell them if they want to get back to see Mommy and Daddy, the only time they'll be able to see them is on visiting days," said FAA Spokesman Jack Barker. Indeed, Cuba is uncompromisingly harsh on its airborne returnees, handing out sentences of up to 20 years for air piracy. "There are no air-conditioned cells with televisions in Cuban jails," said Jim Ewing, spokesman for Delta Air Lines, one of the hijacked carriers. "They're tough...
Imagine a tiny, alien creature landing in St. Louis on a hot summer's evening. His mission: to find out what all this imperial talk of crowning a Miss Universe is about. Making his way to the wings of the stage, he turns and sees Pageant Host Bob Barker, 59. (Truth or Consequences and The Price Is Right are not in syndication on his planet yet, but the visitor feels Bob looks shorter in person than on the TV monitor.) He also gets a new twist on "singing," when Guest Star John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard) belts...
...trial of Claus von Bülow for the attempted killing of his wife Sunny transformed family griefs into a Roman circus, and Journalist William Wright adopts a barker's tone in his recollection of the slack, tedious life of the idle rich. (Sunny rose at 11, rarely left the house except to go shopping, and employed eleven gardeners to manicure eleven acres.) He deftly records the countless lies and petty sins of the accused murderer, starting with the facts that Claus was neither a von nor a Bülow (his father, Svend Borberg, was a convicted...