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DIED. ROSEMARY KENNEDY, 86, oldest sister of President John F. Kennedy and the inspiration for the Special Olympics; in Fort Atkinson, Wis. Born mildly retarded, she was 23 when her father Joseph Kennedy, afraid of a scandal that could damage the family's reputation, arranged for her to have a lobotomy. The operation reduced her to an infantlike state, and she spent most of the rest of her life in an institution. In 1968 her younger sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, created the Special Olympics in her honor...
DIED. WILL EISNER, 87, comic-book pioneer; in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The person after whom comics' most prestigious award is named, Eisner helped launch a company in 1937 that created Dollman and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Later he created the Spirit, a witty antihero with no superpowers who roamed back alleys in search of bad guys, and wrote one of the first graphic novels, about a Bronx, N.Y., slumlord, A Contract with God. "My interest is not the superhero," he said, "but the little man who struggles to survive in the city...
Wilson, of Ringgold, Ga., says he met and befriended Edward Lee Pitts, an embedded reporter from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, at California's Fort Irwin, where his unit trained. Later in Kuwait, after Pitts learned that only soldiers could ask questions at the upcoming Rumsfeld meeting, he urged Wilson to come up with, as Wilson recalls, some "intelligent questions." Wilson decided on one after his convoy arrived at Camp Arijan. The camp had hundreds of fully armored vehicles waiting for a unit scheduled to arrive in July. When Wilson asked if the 278th could use them in the meantime...
At Balder Electric, which is based in Fort Smith, Ark., but sells its industrial motors around the world, these are flush times. After several sluggish years, profit margins are expanding again, revenue is soaring, and earnings will rise 30% this year. Its sales in 70 countries are booming--from Canada to Germany to China. "Our international business is up almost double our domestic business," says CEO John McFarland...
During World War Two, German prisoners of war were shipped across the Atlantic to stay in prison camps located in places like Fort Benning, Georgia. While these camps were no paradises, these German prisoners were treated according to international law. Under the Geneva Conventions, these Germans were required to be repatriated when the war ended. Under those same rules, they were not allowed to be tortured. And, finally, their location within the jurisdiction of the United States meant that the conditions they lived under were open to public scrutiny...