Word: md
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Douglas Germantown, Md...
DIED. Katherine Anne Porter, 90, author of gemlike novellas and short stories that dealt, in her words, with the human propensity for "self-betrayal and self-deception, in all its forms"; in Silver Spring, Md. With such lapidary works as Flowering Judas, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall and Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the Texas-born Porter reigned in the 1930s and '40s as the undisputed queen of the short story. But popular and financial success did not come until the publication in 1962 of her only full-length novel, Ship of Fools, which received mixed reviews but became...
...Giant Food chain in the Washington area last week opened its first warehouse store in Clinton, Md. The prices are low, but the atmosphere is somber. The new warehouse carries less than half as many items as the chain's regular stores, and goods are put out on shelves while still in their shipping cartons. Individual items no longer carry the cost stamped on the top; prices are carried in the striped code that is read at the computerized checkouts. As a result, operating expenses are low, permitting the store to keep down its prices...
COLLEGE PARK, Md.-University of Maryland officials are investigating claims by a sophomore that he was beaten up and harassed by other students because...
...Akbar Tabatabai, late of the Shah's employ, strode to answer the bell of his contemporary rustic two-story home and found Iran standing in the doorway. You may imagine his surprise. Who would have thought to find Iran in such a place; in tasteful suburban Bethesda, Md., no less; dressed up as a postman, of all things; with a gun in its hand to boot? But there it was, large as death for Mr. Tabatabai to contemplate in the second or two before his homeland in disguise made its special delivery to his abdomen. Assassins are not what...