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From the start, however, we know something is up--boy doesn't meet girl in Fresno. A teacher, instead, falls for a ravishing but ignorant peasant in a remote Russian village. The premise unfolds quickly. An unfortunate group of Soviet serfs living in a secluded part of the Ukraine has been smitten with a curse that renders them, and their descendents, totally dense. If anyone stays in Kulyenchikov for more than 24 hours, he, too, loses all intelligence. A long procession of teachers has attempted to break the chain by enlightening one student, but all have failed because...
Roger Mitchell Fresno, Calif...
DIED. Eleanor Grace McClatchy, 85, pioneering woman publisher who for 42 years ran McClatchy Newspapers, Inc., a chain that includes the Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto Bees in California, the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska and other dailies; in Sacramento. McClatchy was a playwrighting student at Columbia University when her father's death in 1936 propelled her into the presidency of the company. She was aggressive in acquiring one television and several radio stations, and in using her newspapers' influence to champion liberal candidates and causes, but personally she remained extremely reticent. In a rare interview, she once said...
...Angeles last week, Meeker died in circumstances that uncannily echoed his mother's film. According to Judy Vasquez, 21, who shared a house with him near the University of Southern California campus, Meeker was chatting with her about his girlfriend, Linda Jason, 21, of Fresno. He casually plucked from the wall over his bed a short-barreled .410 gauge shotgun. Sitting with legs folded in the lotus position, Meeker rested the butt of the gun on his ankles, pointed the barrel at his face and began loading and unloading a shell...
Gregory T. Wuliger Fresno, Calif...