Word: fated
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Just as the rise of kidnaping skips mysteriously from nation to nation, the crime has changed in style over the years. The most celebrated kidnaping of the century involved a 20-month-old child, the son of Charles Lindbergh, who was killed by Bruno Hauptmann in 1932. The same fate awaited Bobby Greenlease, 6, in a notable tragedy of the 1950s. The theory was that kidnapers took small children so that they would not be identified, then killed them in fear. But recent kidnapings have more often involved adolescents, and instead of being killed they have been subjected to some...
Western participants in the international fencing matches in Budapest last month expressed shock at the conspicuous absence of Pawlowski. Members of the now crippled Polish team, meanwhile, were plainly fearful of openly discussing the fate of their champion. Italian Fencer Mario Aldo Montano, twice the world champion, doubted tales that Pawlowski had been accused of espionage. "It is not the sort of thing one would expect of Pawlowski," said Montano. "He is so correct -a gentleman very much in the tradition of fencing." Added American Fencer Jack Keane, captain of the Pan American fencing team, who has often competed with...
Travelers returning from Poland last week reported that Warsaw is awash with rumors about Pawlowski's fate. He is said to have had his hands broken in prison by the Polish secret police, or to have committed suicide in Modlin prison outside Warsaw. According to one rumor, Pawlowski was arrested at Warsaw airport just as he was leaving on one of his frequent trips abroad. Another story had him picked up by police at his desk in the athletic-training department of the Polish Ministry of National Defense. Since his arrest, more than 100 persons are believed to have...
...much American literature, from Huckleberry Finn to Gravity's Rainbow, cauterized America's open society? Because, Warren suggests, great art is rarely hortatory about victories: "What poetry most significantly celebrates is the capacity of man to face the deep, dark inwardness of his nature and his fate...
...central banker, he once said, "the first quality is to be cold-blooded." But he obviously tired of the role. On the wall behind his desk hangs a portrait of St. Sebastian tied to a stake and riddled with arrows; Carli often compared the martyr's fate to his own, adding that the only difference was "that he's bound and I'm not." A few months ago, he told an interviewer that "one of the biggest ills in Italy is the immobility of top people in the world of economics and politics...