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...twice served as Taiwan's unofficial spokeswoman in rebuffing China's reunification overtures and spent her final years in a Manhattan apartment at Gracie Square. It seems only right that she died in the land where she had enjoyed her greatest moments and won her most fervent admirers...
...Square" Scientist Physicist Edward Teller [Milestones, Sept. 22], the "father of the hydrogen bomb," was a fervent foe of Nazism and communism. Our Nov. 18, 1957, report noted the reasons for this opposition and described the young Teller's facility in math...
Thirty-three people were killed in a shoot-out with army officers in front of the presidential palace. Fourteen more were killed when a mob of angry demonstrators set fire to a gas station. When 30,000 fervent demonstrators descended on the Bolivian capitol—which, in a stroke of tragic irony, is named La paz (“The peace”)—they came with a list of 72 demands on president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. The first demand was for him to leave office...
...they are desperate to see their respective teams win. Their “this is the year” attitude is truly a phenomenon. It’s something Yankees fans certainly don’t have, and honestly, I think it makes Red Sox fans more rabid and fervent than their New York counterparts...
...reveal. He craved the attention that exposure can bring, but was reluctant to submit himself to the spotlight. He implied this conflict in the preface to his 1985 autobiography, Blessings in Disguise: "[At the suggestion of an autobiography] ? Ego was immensely flattered and I was appalled." Guinness, a fervent Catholic, always appeared to shun public attention and yet at the same time made damn sure he got it. He forbade any tribute after his death. Yet he published two further volumes of diaries (revealing as little as possible), and according to Read would be offended if congregations didn't applaud...