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Instead of being condemned to an imbecile's life in an asylum, Helen Keller learned to read and hear with her fingers, and by touching others' throats and lips, she was eventually able to verbalize the words she visualized in her mind. At eleven, she was raising money for the benefit of other blind children. She traveled. She wrote stories. She maintained an animated correspondence with writers and clerics; Mark Twain named Miss Keller and Napoleon "the two most interesting characters of the 19th century." At the turn of the 20th, Helen Keller went to college at Radcliffe...
...Chicago." San Diego is located little farther from Los Angeles (the Dodgers) and Anaheim (the Angels), but it got a team - because Dodger Owner Walter O'Malley wanted to reward a friend: E. J. ("Buzzie") Bavasi, who will take over as president of the San Diego club after eleven years as the Dodgers' general manager. Dallas and Fort Worth were turned down for a franchise simply because Roy M. Hofheinz, owner of the Houston Astros, did not want to give up his radio and television baseball monopoly in the Southwest. Instead, the team will go to Montreal, which...
...After eleven months of bitter fighting, the two sides in Nigeria's bloody civil war finally sat down together last week and began truce talks in Uganda's capital of Kampala. "Whether the war is just or unjust is no longer the question," Uganda President Milton Obote told his guests from the federal government and secessionist Biafra. "The principal and overriding demand is to bring it to an end. I pray for the success of your talks." Almost immediately, however, the negotiations bogged down. Nigeria's Chief Anthony Eronsele Enahoro demanded talks before a ceasefire; Biafran Delegation...
Died. Larry Gallo, 41, New York Mafia thug, whose insurrection against Brooklyn Boss Joe Profaci from 1959 to 1963 stirred one of the bloodiest (eleven dead) gang wars since Al Capone's day, ended only when Profaci died in 1962 and Mafia higher-ups split the rackets between the two gangs; of cancer; in Mineola...
...company now owns seven Boeing 707 jets and has paid off all but $12 million of their cost. Additional planes-two of them on lease-help out with the busy schedule: eleven weekly flights to New York, one to Johannesburg, plus others to 17 European cities. With its biggest expansion yet under way-the $90 million move into the jumbo jets-El Al expects to carry a million passengers...