Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, plenty of organized science-fiction activity greeted the fans. Discussion panels included authors such as Frank Herbert, Gordon Dickson, John Brunner and Larry Niven. Dealers offered used and out-of-print books, records, games, posters and T-shirts. A continuous film program featured classics from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" to "Bambi Meets Godzilla." An art show gave amateur and not-so-amateur painters a chance to show their work--most of which looked like a combination of Maxfield Parrish, Peter Max, and Marvel comics...
...DIED. Herbert Kappler, 70, fugitive Nazi war criminal; of intestinal cancer; in Soltau, West Germany. The SS colonel who in 1944 directed the execution of 335 Italian hostages as reprisal for the killing of 33 Nazi occupation police in Rome, Kappler became known as "the Hangman of the Ardeatine Caves." He was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Italian military court in 1948 but was transferred to a Roman hospital in 1976 for cancer treatment. He weighed only 105 Ibs. when his wife smuggled him out of the hospital in a suitcase last August, spiriting him away to West Germany...
...Herbert said she plans to meet next Wednesday with members of the Harvard College "core campaign," a major fund-raising drive program still in the planning stages, to discuss "how the two campaigns might be molded to work together...
...Basically, we have a lot of researching ahead of us--in fact, I feel saturated in research right now," Herbert added...
...chief of police at Tufts University, Herbert Voye, is among the finalists for the job, sources close to Voye at Tufts said yesterday. Members of the search committee contacted yesterday would not comment on Voye's chances...