Word: marian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wheelers-stuffy father, silly mother, bratty daughter, son thrown out of Princeton-take him on and find him a paragon of piano tuning, plumbing and wistfully disarming charm. Keep is a perfect stand-in for a young Jimmy Stewart. As Clarence, he woos and wins the governess (Marian Clarke) in a scene of wonderfully evasive romanticism couched in a discussion of beetles and beetle scholars (Clarence turns...
...School of Languages and Linguistics, the Armed Forces Staff College and the National War College. Fluent in Russian and Serbian, Scowcroft taught Russian history at West Point during the '50s and later served as assistant air attache at the American embassy in Belgrade. Scowcroft and his wife Marian now live with their daughter Karen, 17, in Bethesda...
...Herrema and his kidnapers have been the target of the biggest man hunt in recent Irish history. The Dublin government has steadfastly refused to meet the desperadoes' demand that three convicted Irish terrorists be released from prison. Kidnaper Eddie Gallagher, 27, and his woman companion, reported to be Marian Coyle, 19, sent police a tape-recorded message by Herrema, who said in a quavering voice: "If you ask for proof that I am alive again, they threaten to cut off my foot and send...
...rushed to the scene to listen to conversations in the besieged bedroom that were monitored by sophisticated electronic equipment borrowed from Scotland Yard. Herrema was heard to call hoarsely for food and water. When police offered to send up milk and ham sandwiches, the woman believed to be Marian Coyle retorted: "Feed it to the mice...
...week's end Gallagher offered to give himself up. But his partner, dubbed "Mad Marian" by the Dublin newspapers, refused to let him and their hostage go. As the deadly risk to Herrema mounted, Irish public opinion was increasingly divided. Initially, Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave's hard-line refusal to compromise was widely approved. Now it is feared that if the kidnapers were killed with their hostage after vain attempts to make a deal, they might become instant martyrs to the I.R.A. cause...