Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Disposition of the estate's stock in the bank holding company then became the cause of a skirmish between Ball and Fellow Trustees Dent and William B. Mills, a former bank president jr a long, complicated fight, Ball a few months ago found a way to meet the letter of the law without losing control-the r individual owners of the bank holding company's stock-including Ball himself -voted to buy the estate's stock for $18 a share. Thus Ball maintains his clout in the banks' affairs. In an eleventh-hour effort to wrench...
...romances. Duty-bound to give up her true love, Group Captain Peter Townsend, she settled for Antony Armstrong-Jones, and is now legally separated. According to Margaret's friends, quoted in the British weekly Woman's Own, the match with Jones came about because Margaret received a letter from Townsend announcing his plans to marry another. "That evening, I became engaged to Tony. It was no coincidence," Margaret told her friends. She has also revealed her doubts about remarrying: "It would probably be too much of a bore." Her steady date for theatergoing and vacations is Roderic ("Roddy...
About ten years ago I wrote you another letter of farewell. As I remember, I lamented not being a better soldier and a better doctor. That no longer interests me; I am not such a bad soldier...
...would go on to tell them in this, his last letter to them, that his Marxism had led him to a firm conviction in armed struggle as the only solution for people who fight to liberate themselves, and that he would be consistent with these beliefs. Two years later, he would be captured in a lonely canyon in the Bolivian jungle, his legs shot away, firing his rifle until it was shot out of his hands. Denied medical treatment and tortured, he died, mercifully, the next night. He would be buried in an unmarked grave. In the end, he would...
...jobs they hated because they had been denied the chance to make decent lives for themselves. He grew angry when he heard of Vietnamese peasants blinded, maimed and killed by Americans, not because they were Vietnamese or American, but because they were people. He would write, in his last letter home to his own children...