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...both relieved and delighted that Correspondent Robert Anson has been released after 21 days as a captive of anti-government forces in Cambodia. Fifteen pounds lighter, thanks to the largely rice diet, but none the worse for wear, Anson arrived early last week in Phnom-Penh, where he was soon reunited with his wife Diane. From there, the couple flew to Saigon for a festive gathering with members of the Saigon bureau and Time-Life News Service Chief Murray Gart, who flew in from Europe via Tashkent. Gart arrived with champagne, a tin of caviar and a bottle of vodka...
...Fifteen-Minute Portrait. Porter was born in 1792, while Washington was still in office. He grew up in Maine, went to school for six months when he was twelve, and then turned his back on his family's prosperous farm. In 1807 he set out for Portland carrying a fife and a fiddle. Within eight years he was making money as a traveling musician, a teacher, a sign and house painter, a soldier, a builder. With typical Yankee ingenuity, Porter tried each occupation from as many angles as possible. Once he mastered a skill, he proceeded immediately to teach...
Like Lane, English-born Thomas Birch also delighted in painting harbors and coasts. Brought to America in 1794 when he was only fifteen, Birch settled in Philadelphia and immediately went to work with his father, an accomplished engraver and painter of enamels. Although he was never a sailor. Birch had a profound feeling for the structure and beauty of ships. In a View of the Harbor of Philadelphia from the Delaware River, Birch shows that he understood even better the element they travel in. Although his seascapes varied -some being stormy and violent-this harbor view is marked...
Barthel's claim provoked some scholarly skepticism, even though the onetime Wehrmacht cryptographer has shown skill at cracking ancient linguistic codes. Fifteen years ago, Barthel reported deciphering the so-called "talking boards" of Easter Island in the South Pacific. The Inca mystery was every bit as challenging. But he had invaluable help from Peruvian Archaeologist Victoria de la Jara. If there was a written language, she suspected, it must be hidden in the geometric designs (tocapus) found on priestly garments and wooden vessels...
Convicted in September of 1968 of voluntary manslaughter, Newton was serving a two to fifteen year sentence in a California penal farm. However, the conviction was overturned by the California Court of Appeals on May 29 on the grounds that the trial judge had failed properly to instruct the jury...