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...life. After Thomas claimed that a police inspector questioned him about Calvert's love life, he was transferred to a new assignment -- at the sewer plant. Says Thomas: "That's where they find body parts." Calvert, who left Detroit to become head of the department of public works in Fontana, Calif., in January, filed her formal complaint with the Wayne County prosecutor's office, which announced it would investigate the alleged misuse of police...
...emergence of leftist insurrection shocked Argentines and revived fears that haunt the nation. As military analyst Andres Fontana put it, "People don't want a return to terrorism, and they don't want to give any space back to the military." A visibly shaken President Raul Alfonsin sought to quell any speculation that Argentina might be returning to the bloody ideological battles of the 1970s. "This is our opportunity to demonstrate to the world that we have learned from our past," he counseled...
...been taking risks since he was born, in the town of Fontana Liri, near Rome, to a carpenter who eventually went blind and a housewife who eventually went deaf. ("They were like a comic couple," he notes.) When the German army occupied Italy, Marcello was sent to a labor camp. He escaped and hid in a tailor's attic in Venice until the end of the war. He had studied to be an architect but drifted into acting, making his film debut in 1947 in I Miserabili. The following year he joined Luchino Visconti's Milan theater troupe...
...State center in Farmingdale, N.Y., teachers make up lesson plans even for infants. Empire, which receives partial funding from New York State, keeps parents closely informed of their child's development. "If a child takes a first step, develops in the least, that parent is called," says Director Ana Fontana...
...usual with Karl Lagerfeld, went far afield from their luxury furs and submitted a striking winter woolen overcoat with a storm cape that the Brontë sisters might have worn for a brisk constitutional on the moors. The other contenders-Milan's Mila Schön, and the Fontana Sisters of Rome-also made impressive showings. It was an embarrassment of riches and, as it turns out, a bit of an embarrassment altogether...