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DIED. DAVID DELLINGER, 88, antiwar activist and one of the Chicago Seven tried for inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic Convention; in Montpelier, Vt. Born to privilege, he was drawn to civil disobedience as a student at Yale, where he committed himself to nonviolence after hitting someone after a football game. A former divinity student who was 20 years older than his Chicago Seven comrades, Dellinger organized the 1967 march on the Pentagon depicted in Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night...
...were on the point of collapse. That seemed perilously likely. By mid-1942, more than 150 German divisions had overrun the Soviet Union to a depth of 1,000 miles, wreaking mayhem on a scale that John F. Kennedy later compared to "the devastation of this country east of Chicago." The fate of Britain and the U.S. alike hung on the Soviets' survival. "The prize we seek," said Dwight Eisenhower in 1942, "is to keep 8 million Russians...
...more and more unwilling to impose death sentences on juvenile offenders and why 31 states prohibit the practice. As we learn more from science and as it converges with legislation and the law, a consensus on this issue is increasingly clear. DENNIS W. ARCHER, PRESIDENT American Bar Association Chicago...
...seemingly unnecessary sprigs of baby basil, chervil or arugula are an integral ingredient, not a garnish. The teensy leaves are sprouting up in restaurants across the U.S. as chefs discover that big flavor is sometimes hidden in little bundles. Charlie Trotter pioneered the use of microgreens at his namesake Chicago restaurant, paving the way for the baby herbs to show up on the menus of such eateries as Alain Ducasse at the Essex House in New York City and the French Laundry in Yountville, Calif. "In addition to being small and pretty, microgreens also have an intensity to them that...
DIED. JUNE TAYLOR, 86, Emmy Award--winning choreographer whose high-kicking, wide-smiling routines on The Jackie Gleason Show introduced the Broadway-inspired chorus line to television audiences in the 1950s and '60s; in Miami. When a bout of tuberculosis at age 20 derailed her career as a Chicago nightclub dancer, she founded her own touring company, the June Taylor Dancers, and in 1946 ran into Gleason at a Baltimore nightclub...