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Despite the professions of ignorance by most of Helga's neighbors, reporters eventually found her house across the road from the Kuerners', learned that her name is Helga Testorf, that she is now 54 and that she is married with four children and two grandchildren. (A daughter, Carmen, figures in a few works in the Helga series.) Her teenage son has been guarding the property and turning away reporters, and the tension weighing on him was visible. He was near tears as he said he wanted to protect his mother from being hurt. Told she was the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Andrew Wyeth's Stunning Secret | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...survived by his wife Yole E. Zariski, a daughter, Vera L. De Cola of Brookline and a son, Raphael Zariski, of Lincoln, Nebraska, and four grandchildren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mathematician, Oscar Zariski, Dead At 86 | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

There was a consensus, however: that SDI called for decisions that might crucially affect the world's future. Said Nitze in his closing remarks: "I don't believe that the younger generation looks forward to having its grandchildren face the threat of mutual destruction. I don't believe that's a thing that generation after generation is going to want to live with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Jun. 23, 1986 | 6/23/1986 | See Source »

...wife of exiled Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov spent her 63rd birthday surrounded by three grandchildren at Disney World in Florida, mesmerized by the fantasies conjured up in the Magic Kingdom. For the past six months, Yelena Bonner has been nurtured by her family and awed by the wonders of the U.S. She has soaked up sun in the Virgin Islands, seen Cats on Broadway and stayed up all night with her 85-year-old mother Ruth, leafing through the pages of an old family photo album. Nonetheless, says Alexei Semyonov, a son from her previous marriage, "she never really could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dissidents Homeward Bound, Reluctantly | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...yearbook is a nostalgia producer--you buy it so that in 30 years you can flip through the pages and remember your Harvard years. You can sit your grandchildren on your knees, point to your face in the varsity soccer picture and reminisce about the day you saved by booting in the tie-breaking goal. Or you can grin and sigh as you find a candid shot of your old roommates beaning each other with rotten vegetables in the Adams House Raft Race...

Author: By Jennifer M. Oconnor, | Title: A Book Without the Class | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

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