Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's Peter Palandjian surprised Pat McEnroe in a three-set upset at number three. McEnroe, the younger brother of a better known tennis player, is about 60 places higher than Palandjian in the latest collegiate singles rankings. However, Palandjian was not intimidated, taking a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 decision...
...Tumerman, a Soviet scientist who later emigrated to Israel, set off for home after visiting his brother. As he drove through a deserted region in the southern Ural Mountains, he passed a road sign warning motorists not to stop for the next 20 miles and to proceed as fast as possible. A little farther on he saw why. "To the right and to the left, as far as the eye could see," he later wrote, "there was empty land. The land was dead: no villages, no towns, only chimneys of destroyed homes, no cultivated fields or pastures, no herds...
...author is conspicuously selective about players who are not wholly owned subsidiaries of his imagination. For example, there is a part for Harry Gold, a confessed spy and Government witness in the case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But missing from the book is David Greenglass, Ethel's brother and an Army machinist on the Manhattan Project who later testified that he had provided Gold and the Rosenbergs with atomic secrets...
...from his pocket, got in the big new Chrysler with the tobacco juice cup affixed to the dash, and drove over to Mount Olivet Cemetery. Down at the end of a drive lined with red-tipped photinias, in a section called Showmen's Rest, he pointed out his brother's grave, his father's grave and the spot where he and his wife Isla Marie would spend eternity. All around were tombstones in the shape of tents, or wagon wheels, or ticket booths, or markers with MAIN ENTRANCE etched across them, and epitaphs of touching rhyme: "Give life the best...
FOOTNOTE: *The others: Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, also suspended from priestly duties, and his brother Fernando, Minister of Education, whose clerical status is under review...