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...Tuesday, Nov. 12, in Room 220 of the Comfort Inn, a motel in Newark, Delaware. Earlier that night, Grossberg, 18, a freshman at the University of Delaware, had called her boyfriend Peterson, also 18, and told him that she was going into labor. Peterson then drove from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, where he is a freshman, to meet Grossberg. They went to the motel, and she gave birth...
...that afternoon, though, Grossberg fainted in her dorm room. She was taken to a hospital, where doctors discovered that she had given birth within the past 12 hours and notified police that a baby might be missing. Grossberg's roommate told the police about Peterson, and they called Gettysburg College. There, a dormitory adviser and a campus security officer approached Peterson, who told them where the baby was. The police found bloody bed linens in each of the couple's dorm rooms, and in Peterson's, a map of Newark and a receipt from the White Glove Car Wash...
MOST EMBARRASSING HISTORICAL GAFFE--CLINTON: "The last time I checked, the Constitution said, '...of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says." Wrong on both counts. It's the Gettysburg Address...
BORN: Aug. 20, 1935, Pittsburgh, Pa. EDUCATION: Gettysburg College, B.S., 1957; Duke U, M.D., 1961 FAMILY: Wife, Carol; five children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: Air Force, 1963-65; Air National Guard, 1965-68 OCCUPATION: Physician POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1976-84; sought Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, 1984; Libertarian candidate for U.S. President, 1988 ADDRESS: 837 West Plantation, Clute...
...archival photographs, the dramatically lighted talking heads, the period letters brought to life by well-known voices (if it's Jason Robards, this must be Burnsland). In his last series, Baseball, that style veered into self-parody: every home run and World Series victory sounded like the Battle of Gettysburg--and it went on for 18 hours...