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...doll, it is found in almost every epoch and culture, reaching back to the little votive objects of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, as well as the creche miniatures of Europe in the Middle Ages. Even the cheapest five- and-dime figurine is kin to the priceless Japanese ceremonial dolls that museums covet and to the feminine miniatures some African peoples still present to adolescent girls when they reach sexual maturity...
...Signet and their kin we kindly bestow...
...trainer Cus D'Amato, who died a year ago lost and lonely, three decades after standing up to the cowardly little mobster Frankie Carbo. Maybe lonely is wrong, though Cus never married in 77 years, admitting only one passion. As the legal ward of D'Amato, Tyson was kin to Floyd Patterson, the youngest champion until last week. A Tyson left hook in the second round sent the World Boxing Council's Trevor Berbick bouncing across the ring and almost through the ropes. That made 28 victims in 28 fights, 26 by concussion, from "hydrogen bombs" thrown "with murderous intentions...
...strike the quiet west African country. The U.N. Disaster Relief coordinator in Geneva put the toll at 1,746, but the number may be far higher. National army units, fearing an epidemic, quickly buried the decomposing bodies, never pausing to keep count. More corpses were hastily buried by kin from neighboring villages. "There are mass graves because we only had a few laborers, and we could not dig individual graves," Lieut. General James Tataw, commander of the rescue operation, told reporters. "Those who have individual graves, those were dug for them by their relatives. The cows have no relatives...
...Blount, 65; a chef from New London, Conn., Archie Dunbar, 24; an elder of the Gospel Temple Church of Christ in Manhattan, Joseph Baum, 65; one of Redford's high school classmates, Herman Bonner, 45, of Portsmouth, Va., an aircraft-maintenance manager who did not know he was kin to Redford until she began her research; and the owner of a trophy-making firm in Hillside, N.J., William Dennis Boughton, 52. Says Boughton: "I'll be going to see the joy of others...