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...hails back to but Rudricus the Great, who ruled Ireland with might and main for 70 years before he died in 219 B.C. His descendants took the name MacCartan, and in 1711, a MacCartan emigrated from the Auld Sod to France where he married convent-educated Susanne Decoetlogon, who bore him five children, one of whom turned out to be De Gaulle's great-great-greatgrandfather on his mother's side...
...Tahitian beauty whom he didn't marry. The judge decided that Marlon's methods were mere "shortcomings" compared to Anna's "reliance on drugs and alcohol," therefore awarded custody of the youngster to Brando. Cried Anna, dashing from the court in tears, "I bore this baby! Where the hell was Marlon Brando when the child was being reared?" Rhetorical question...
...taken to Vaughan Memorial Hospital, suffering, his doctors said, from chest pains and exhaustion. A band of some 200 teen-age Negro demonstrators, most of whom had been prodded along the forced-march route by Clark and his men, gathered outside the hospital carrying signs that bore the message "Jim Clark, get well in mind and body." Said one of the demonstrators later: "It just wasn't the same without Clark fussing and fuming. We honestly miss him." That was not hard to understand, for Sheriff Clark had been an unwitting asset to King and the Negro community...
...sculptural face of a modern city playground rarely gets more monumental than a jungle gym. Its rectilinear ziggurat of steel lattice is a joy toy for kids, and a spatial bore. But then, who considers a playground worthy of a sculptor's talents? At least, New York city's housing authority did, and let Costantino Nivola, 53, see how he could improve on the blight of monkey bars, slides, and swings that make play grounds across the nation look like a titanic display of naked plumbing...
...family's camel and goats. Buildings in Libya require weather stripping and storm windows to keep sand from blowing in African buildings must be equipped with insect shields, and bird and snake screens. Excavation sites are usually sterilized to kill voracious African bugs that can even bore through concrete