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That advice was hardly likely to console one Kalam Mia, who roamed through Chardarvesh village last week looking into the faces of 2,000 dead children in search of his ten-year-old son. He never found the boy. "And now," said a neighbor, "he raves like a madman, and in his eyes is an expression beyond words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Pakistan: When The Demon Struck | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

While most responses tended toward the feelings of despair and "we've been there before" weariness expressed above, a definite undercurrent of cynical anger was evident. There were numerous references to "that madman in the White House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students React to Bombs-'We've Been Here Before' | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...Surgeons, who in his youth studied under Sir William Gull, physician to Queen Victoria. Another of Gull's patients, writes Stowell, was Jack the Ripper. Although Stowell refers to the killer as "S" throughout the article, he drops enough clues to leave little doubt as to the madman's identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Who Was Jack the Ripper? | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

Frank Champi was throwing the ball scrambling like a madman. Somehow, Gatto finally caught a touchdown pass in the corner of the end zone as time ran out. Champi had to do it again, and he did, as Varney grabbed the pass and it was done. One of the most incredible games of all time and, almost incidentally, a third Ivy championship...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Yovicsin Years: Good, Better, Worst | 9/24/1970 | See Source »

...friend Charles Marnay. Ironically, death did not, however, remain a matter of stage make-believe. Shaw wrote the play in 1896-97 at the request of the famous actor of melodrama Wiliam ("Breezy Bill") Terriss; but, before Terriss ever essaved the title role, he was murdered by a madman outside London's Adelphi Theatre...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: III 'Devil's Disciple' Is Bright and Brassy Show | 7/10/1970 | See Source »

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