Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paula Sims said her 13-day-old daughter Loralei had been abducted from her Brighton, Ill., home by a man wearing gloves, a ski mask and a dark T shirt and carrying a gray revolver. Police who later found Loralei's body in a wood near the house were suspicious, but could find no evidence to disprove the story. But when Paula, now living in Alton, Ill., told police there last April 29 that her second daughter, six-week-old Heather, had also been kidnaped by a man wearing gloves, a ski mask and a dark T shirt and carrying...
...this time there were clues. Heather's body turned up in a plastic garbage bag that apparently came from a roll found in the Simses' Alton home. An autopsy showed that the baby had been smothered and her body frozen; a hair sample was discovered in a deep freezer in the house of Paula's parents, where she and husband Robert had been staying. Paula was indicted on charges of concealing a homicide and obstructing justice in both cases. Last week a grand jury added charges of murdering Heather. No action was taken against Robert, but police consider...
...stretch of prairie north of Fort Worth seems an unlikely home for the "industrial hub of tomorrow." Yet this is where Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot is constructing a 9,600-ft. runway that will carry mostly industrial products rather than human passengers. Perot and his son H. Ross Jr., 30, who heads the project, envision the Alliance Airport as the center of a 4,200-acre industrial park in which companies will manufacture products and distribute them by air freight...
...master plan process is a particularly sensitive one for Allston-Brighton, which is home to parts of Harvard, Boston College and Boston University...
Allston-Brighton, across the Charles River from Cambridge and home to the Business School and the athletic facilities, had for a long time felt like the "back-door" to Harvard, to use the phrase of resident Gary McIsaac, but the indepth discussion involved in coming up with a master plan was seen as a means of changing that...