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Robert L. Calvert '39, stood outside Alton's only precinct--located in the village fire station--and held a sign for U.S. Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) but, he added, he doubted that Lugar would be elected...
...with his wife Laura and five-year-old daughter Kady. But they travel frequently back to Michigan and just bought a lake house in the northern part of the state, right next door to his in-laws. Allen remains friendly with a clubhouse gang of old neighborhood pals. Ken Calvert, a Detroit disc jockey, still tries to match him in things like power lawn mowers. Calvert cross-cut his yard with twin 21- in.-blade Lawn-Boys; Allen bested him with a John Deere riding mower -- with Baby Moon hubcaps...
...midst of a televised cross-country tour, the duo are clear successors to veteran Letterman foil Larry ("Bud") Melman -- with one important difference. Melman was a character played by actor Calvert DeForest. Mujibur Rahman, 34, and Sirajul Islam, 39 ("the boys," as Letterman calls them), are real New Yorkers -- and a real problem for their fellow emigres, who have no illusions about what America is laughing...
...were these people, and what could their remains tell scholars about early American life? The effort to find out included scientists form a dozen universities, the Army and NASA. Last week the researchers pronounced the mystery solved. The man was Philip Calvert, an early Governor of colonial Maryland, who died in 1682; the woman was his first wife, Anne Calvert; and the baby presumably was his daughter from a second marriage...
...discovery provided grim evidence of the harshness of 17th century life. Hair analysis showed that Anne Calvert took medicines containing arsenic and that she had an iron deficiency -- suggesting that she had been subjected to bloodletting for an illness. After more study, including DNA analysis to confirm the child's identity, the Calverts will be reburied -- this time in properly marked graves...