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...like a sad, familiar story-in-law problems and a bride-to-be left in the lurch. Christine Cox, 24, a librarian's assistant, a maid of honor and the best man were waiting in her apartment near Boston to attend the wedding rehearsal. When the bridegroom, Kenneth Levitt, 25, failed to show, Christine phoned his parents' home and was told, "Ken just left." But hours later, with the wayward groom still missing, Christine says, Ken's parents told her that their son had gone off to consider whether he should back out of the marriage...
Fifteen days later, Levitt reappeared to tell a totally different story. He said that during all that time he had been imprisoned against his will at three different locations. His mysterious captors not only wanted to break up his marriage, he said, but to talk him out of his new-found religion. He had been the victim of a bizarre and forceful "deprogramming" technique, he claimed. Levitt was no convert to a weird new cult, however, but a Jew who had lately converted to Christianity and wanted to marry a Gentile...
...Levitt recalls it, he stopped by his parents' home in Newton, Mass., for dinner before attending the wedding rehearsal. His father was going to give him money from stock sales, and his sister wanted to borrow his guitar. No sooner had his father greeted him, he says, than three men tied a hood over his head and wrestled him into a truck. After being driven for about an hour, he found himself prisoner in an attic. There he was kept awake for 36 hours and fed only a matzo and a piece of chicken. Day and night young Jewish...
...Herrick swamped rounding the mark, and while she and crew Cassie Levitt were trying to get the water out of the Interclub dinghy, they slipped to fifth place. MIT won the race and the trophy by a slim two points...
Laura Brown, Russell Long, Buck Webb, Chuck Tabor, Levitt, and Fleming shared in the skippering duties for the Crimson...