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...year-old berrichonne provincial fleeing from her small-spirited husband, rumor began placing her in bed with almost every author, artist, musician and revolutionary politician of her day. By Gate's count, however, Sand's liaisons numbered no more than 20−and (contrary to gossip) they were all with...
...living a lie. Explained Minnesota State Senator Allan Spear, 38, after he gave a local newspaper a story about his homosexuality last winter: "I felt I was going to be much more comfortable in a situation where I wasn't going to be hiding what I am, enduring gossip behind my back." His heavily liberal constituency took the news calmly and is expected to re-elect him. For Elaine Noble, 31, the first avowed lesbian to be elected to state office (to the Massachusetts legislature in 1974), coming out was more difficult. It cost her her job as an advertising...
...hundred or so geologists and seismologists who turned up for the informal monthly meeting of California's Pick and Hammer Club expected an evening of socializing and routine gossip about faults, core samples and volcanoes. Instead, they heard scientific history in the making. As part of his work for the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Research Center, Seismologist Malcolm Johnston had just finished analyzing data from seven monitoring stations set up along the San Andreas Fault in the quake-prone Hollister area. His figures, Johnston told his colleagues, showed that the strength of the local magnetic field...
There was gossip that the attacks might be connected with Garrett's private life. His 15-year marriage had broken up, and he had moved into an apartment in the Sugarhouse complex just a few days before the first fire; there was talk too that he was involved with another project staffer and that she had a friend who was jealous. Still, Garrett was respected and popular. On April 5, the staffers gave Garrett a birthday party. The next day, a Sunday, Yuba City firemen got another call, went to Garrett's apartment, and found his body, doused...
Pool Smoke. The killing shook Garrett's colleagues, but it also seemed to confirm the gossip and indicate that the attacks on the project itself were now finished. One of Garrett's friends, Donald Larsen, 37, assistant director of a similar vocational-training project in Eureka, applied to replace him at Gateway. The staffers got together to give the new director a welcoming party. As they were raising their glasses to toast the end of their troubles, smoke drifted over the nearby swimming pool. When they ran out to look, they found two of their cars burning fiercely...