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...state-wide hunt begins for Sylvester Gardiner '46, football and varsity crew athlete an son of an ex-governor of Maine, who disappeared Jan. 23. Gardiner's family initially suspects he may have fallen into the Charles River while ice skating. After a four-week, multistate search, two children find Gardiner's body floating in the Boston basin of the Charles with ice skates attached to his feet...
...January the Air Force showed Flinn Zigo's statement, and she knew she had fallen hard for the wrong man, a louse so low he makes George Costanza look like Sir Galahad. Zigo, whom she swiftly kicked out, had lied about nearly everything: his birthplace, his age, his marital status, his probation on wife-beating charges. The ring he gave Flinn was the same one he had given his wife. He even lied about his soccer career...
...problem would be selling de-alerting to the Russians. They are more reliant on nuclear weapons than ever because their conventional forces have fallen apart. And the weapons of mass destruction have a weightier meaning and symbolism to Russia today: they are the pillar on which a proud nation rests its claim to superpower status. With their army, navy and air force in disrepair, the Russian leaders are very unlikely to respond with smiles and nods to suggestions that they disable, even temporarily, their terrifying nuclear forces. Besides, no one is trying to persuade them...
...River. Gateway's public relations firm, New York City-based Hill & Knowlton, had begun preparing a press release. Waitt had even dispatched a courier to foreign offices to deliver the news to key executives. But ultimately Waitt couldn't sign on the dotted line. The deal appears to have fallen apart when Compaq started to project some corporate muscle, as in, "You work for us now." Waitt bristled at his executives' being treated as subordinates, not equals. Both Compaq and Gateway declined to comment. But a source close to Waitt says, "Anyone who really knows Ted Waitt knows that there...
...language could never hide an unwavering sympathy for the oppressed and an abiding sense of fair play; in New York City. A liberal labor reporter for the New York Post in 1942, Kempton continued his sometimes quixotic fight for underdogs on the left and right--he even defended the fallen Richard Nixon when the former President was rejected by a New York co-op board. His many awards included a 1985 Pulitzer for his Newsday commentary...