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Romance? Aline Griffith, 63, recruited into the OSS while in college and ; sent to Spain as a code clerk, wound up marrying a Spanish grandee to become the Countess of Romanones. Festooned with diamonds and emeralds, she smiled knowingly as she reminisced: "I hate to say it, but war is fun." High times? Eugene Sherman was 19 and en route to a guerrilla base 100 miles from Canton when Yale-trained Psychologist William Morgan, an OSS major, intercepted him. Sherman remembers that the two repaired to a restaurant and drank much too much at a party that ended when Morgan...
...past week people have been steadily flowing into Cambridge. "I thought it would be non-stop madness, but everyone seems to be in a pretty good mood. It's friendly," said a desk clerk at the Motor House...
After six months of acrimonious courtroom proceedings and nearly 50 hours of deliberation, a jury last week filed into a tiny federal courtroom in Tucson. The eleven defendants, all of them church workers, faced the jury. Then they listened in stunned silence as the court clerk read guilty verdicts against six of them for conspiring to smuggle Salvadorans and Guatemalans into the U.S. Two more were found guilty of harboring or transporting the illegal aliens...
...help feeling all young and nice." Foreigners succumb to this seductive appeal at their own peril. In Passion, two British roommates take up with men they find "typically Indian." They are, naturally, stark opposites. Christine goes out with a handsome Sikh officer; Betsy has an affair with a scrawny clerk who is married, sensitive to a fault and abusive to her when the mood hits him. "I suppose all passion is unhealthy," she tells Christine, who has begun to worry about her friend's behavior. "Sometimes I tell you I feel insane --and what's more--what's terrible...
Later, during lunch, Marcos and his wife relaxed and even joked. At one point the former First Lady gently needled her husband. "You look like a clerk," she quipped when Marcos removed his jacket and vest in the sultry afternoon heat. "That's better than looking jobless," the ostracized couple then said in unison. Mrs. Marcos also hearkened back to her now infamous collection of shoes. "The maid assures me there were not 3,000 pairs," she said. She then summoned the woman, who dutifully testified that the First Lady's wardrobe included only 200 pairs of shoes. Mrs. Marcos...