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...flesh scrapings found under her fingernails indicated a desperate struggle with her attacker. Daughter of a retired Bolivian army colonel. Marta worked as a clerk-typist at the Washington, D.C. Hospital Center, was a frequent guest at parties given by Bolivia's Ambassador Victor Andrade. ¶ In North Buffalo. N.Y.. frightened parents confiscated their children's bikes, Bible-class attendance dwindled, and one cautious housewife locked all three doors to her house, kept the key on a chain around her neck. The town had been terrified by the brutal drowning of blond Andrew Ashley...
...tonnage and not a single new industry. Duluth built a new $9,000,000 port terminal, and though the city's outgoing shipments have risen, its import turnover is off 46% from a year ago. Other regional centers profit in some ways only to lose in others. Buffalo's ocean tonnage has doubled, but its great milling business has sagged because Midwest grain carriers now head straight overseas without stopping at Buffalo. Lake Erie steelmakers enjoy cheaper ore imports but suffer stiffer foreign competition, because imported steel is cheaper when brought in through the St. Lawrence...
...mile and its box office to some $2,000,000 a year. Born in Lebanon and a tumbler from the age of three, the improbable Hamid was nine years old when, in Marseille, he met the first two Americans he had ever seen: Annie Oak ley and William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody. Hamid joined Cody's traveling circus, shined the great man's boots, kept his highballs full of ice, worshiped him, and has been a lifelong abstainer because he watched Buffalo Bill dissolve in booze...
...Separating the real from the legendary Von Wiegand would have been an impossible assignment for Von Wiegand himself. He took too much pleasure in embellishing the legend. Born in Germany, raised on an Iowa farm, he once told an interviewer that he had worked as a ranch hand for Buffalo Bill -a fancy so wild and appropriate that it has never been disproved. Fact is that he learned telegraphy as a young man in Arizona, tried working as a country newspaper correspondent, then moved to California, where his natural flamboyance caught the eye of another flamboyant journalist, William Randolph Hearst...
...regular job for the past ten years has been Stated Clerk-permanent executive officer-of the Presbyterian General Assembly, an elected body that is the heart of the government of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterians), who number 3,259,011. Last week and this, in Buffalo, as Dr. Blake took charge for the tenth year of the General Assembly, the prime item on the agenda represented the highest ambition of his career-the "Blake Proposal" for the creation of a new, still-unnamed Protestant church out of four old ones. His plan has been Topic...