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...together they settled down to a quiet, productive life in New Jersey. Peace was short-lived, however. In 1932, the Lindberghs' first and then only child, 20-month-old Charles Jr., was kidnaped from a second-floor nursery. Ten weeks later, the body was found in a shallow grave in some woods near the Lindbergh home. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a Bronx carpenter, was later convicted in probably the most celebrated trial of the century, and then electrocuted for the murder. Throughout the search for Charles Jr. and throughout the Hauptmann trial, the Lindberghs were hounded by the press, which...
Both Greeks and Turks feared for the safety of those who had remained in their homes during the fighting but were now trapped in territory controlled by the other side. At Aloa, the Turks showed newsmen a mass grave that held the remains, so they said, of 57 Turkish Cypriots who had been murdered by Greek extremists. They uncovered only five corpses however. The Greeks countered with their own accusations of rape and murder. According to U.N. officials, both sides were exaggerating their tales of atrocity...
...effects: increasing pangs of greed for what he can appreciate but not afford, a habit of judging people by their acquisitions -and of being judged and found wanting in return. Muhlbach knows that his addiction lends moral support to a rapacious modern traffic in antiquities; operating on his behalf, grave robbers and smugglers struggle to finish the dispersal of pre-Columbian civilizations begun by the Spanish five centuries...
...This house has been like a grave," Betty Ford, the new First Lady, remarked to TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo in an interview soon after her initial tour of her new home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The comment was made not in criticism but compassion for the Nixons' long ordeal there. "I want it to sing," Mrs. Ford said of the White House, adding that while she greatly admires Pat Nixon, she is going to be a different kind of First Lady. "I expect to be very active. Pat Nixon did many, many things with groups inside the White House...
...work life will always be better off than his fellow worker who changes jobs." Noting that the bill allows employers to choose the vesting plan that costs the least and therefore provides the least protection to the employee, Ohio State Law Professor Merton C. Bernstein calls the measure "a grave disappointment" and worries that its passage will destroy the impetus for pension reform in the future. He has a point: the present bill was eight years in the drafting, under intense lobbying pressure all the while. Still, the act should go far toward assuring many workers of a more pleasant...