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...Saul Kent wanted to bestow the ultimate gift upon his sickly 83-year-old mother: a new life. So when Dora Kent was near death last December, Saul, 48, took her to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Riverside. There, her head was cut off and frozen in liquid nitrogen. Called cryonics, the process is based on the hope that someday scientists will be able to attach the head to a new body...
...Mama dead when she lost her head? Last week the Riverside County coroner's office, after performing toxicologic tests on Dora's headless body, classified her death as homicide. The coroner asserts that Mrs. Kent was injected with barbiturates, which hastened her death. Alcor officials maintain that the barbiturates were administered immediately after she was clinically dead to "act as a preservative and insulate the brain...
Convinced that most of the specimens distributed nationally are imposters, Big Apple Baking Co. in Brooklyn (no connection to the Chicago shops) last spring began marketing what it considers to be more authentic New York-style bagels. Vows Company President Allen Kent: "We will not prostitute the bagel." Despite that promise, Big Apple's version, which substitutes steaming for the boiling process, turns out to be soft and spongy...
After 1968, much of the drama lay ahead (the Weatherman's Days of Rage, Woodstock, Altamont, Kent State), and then the long dispersals of the '60s generation into the '70s. But the events of the origin myth ended sometime around the November election of Richard Nixon, when, it may be, history seemed to have been ceded back to the fathers, and recalled from timelessness into time...
...people accused in the long-running affair are E. Robert Wallach, a Meese friend of 30 years and former personal lawyer who became a highly paid Wedtech lobbyist; W. Franklyn Chinn, a former Wedtech director who handled investments profitably for Meese in a "blind partnership" trust; and Rusty Kent London, a professional gambler and past financial consultant to Wedtech. The indictments contend that Wallach received a check for $300,000 from Wedtech in 1984, claiming falsely that the payment was for past legal advice to the company. "In fact," contended Giuliani, "the money was for future services, including efforts...