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...Died. Leo George, 59, since 1953 one of the four regional kings who rule the estimated 180,000 gypsies in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Houston. George made his living in real estate but also arbitrated disputes among members of his Southwest gypsy clan and helped out subjects who ran afoul...
...Adam, a lust-crazed young writer (wearing, as writers will, "a worn gray cord jacket" and "tight blue knit slacks") and three accomplices, just "ordinary, average men" says Wallace, who naturally turn into "savages bent on satisfying their immediate appetites." Howard Yost, a beefy failed insurance salesman, and Leo Brunner, a mousy, feverish little accountant, are ordinary indeed, but Kyle Shiveley, a psychopathic My Lai veteran with "thin lips" and "cold slate-colored eyes," not to mention his "horrendous apparatus," is hardly the guy next door...
Kissinger chose well: among the graduates of his seminars are Belgium's prospective Prime Minister Leo Tinde-mans, West German Minister for Economic Cooperation Erhard Eppler, Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, South Korean former Prime Minister Chung II Kwon, Japanese Minister of Trade and Industry Yasuhiro Nakasone, Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Frydenlund, and such prominent nongovernment figures as West German Editor Theo Sommer and British Historian Michael Foot...
...UCCW plans the action because contractors working on construction projects in Boston's black community fail to hire enough local workers, Leo Fletcher, the president of the UCCW, said...
...Please tell me what I can do about my son," the middle-aged woman pleaded, her eyes glistening. Eyes front, obviously touched, Lieut. General Leo E. Benade kept walking toward the door of the congressional hearing room where he had just testified. The woman continued: "He has been a deserter for six years in Sweden, and I cannot get anyone to talk to me. I have written to everybody, and nobody has any answers. All they tell me is, 'Produce the body, and we'll negotiate.' He wants to come home. Can you help?" As the general...