Word: lumberman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twinge of jealousy over her lumberman boy friend, the wife of a Phoenix physician chopped up a couple of the lumberman's lady friends and shipped them to California in trunks. Now-after 40 years, a sensational trial and seven escapes from mental hospitals-"Tiger Woman" Winnie Ruth Judd, 66, has been granted a commutation of her life sentence by Arizona Governor Jack Williams. If she gets the parole board's permission, the matronly murderess plans to return to the San Francisco suburb of Damville, where she was recaptured in 1969 after spending several years incognito as housekeeper...
Though Kekkonen is sometimes accused of being the Kremlin's errand boy, he has actually performed an adroit balancing act in his dealings with the Soviets. A northern lumberman's son who was once the national high-jump champion (top performance: 6 ft. in 1924), Kekkonen fought the Russians during World War I and in 1940 was one of only two members of Parliament who voted against ceding any Finnish territory to the Soviets. In 1943, however, he realized that the Nazis were losing the war and concluded that Finland would have to adopt a policy of Soviet...