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...month ordered that Pixley be moved from a detention center--where she was serving time for killing her daughter and committing credit-card fraud--to a facility that allows children, so that she could take custody of her fourth child, Cornilous, 2. In an earlier, related action, Montgomery County (Md.) circuit court Judge Michael Mason had ruled that Pixley was free of the postpartum depression that had caused her to kill her daughter, and that it was in Cornilous' "best interest" that he be returned to his biological mother...
...spend five years on one link and get nowhere," he says, "but when you get that one name, you may be able to take it back several generations in a single day." Margot Williams, 50, a minister of education for St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Bethesda, Md., is of African-American, Cherokee, Seminole and Saponi descent. During her first visits to the National Archives, she pored over an 1880 census to find some of her black ancestors. She was getting discouraged after 2 1/2 hours, until, she recalls, "lo and behold, I began to find family members. Once...
DIED. FRANK ROWLETT, 90, nimble-minded cryptographer who cracked a Japanese diplomatic code used to encrypt dispatches between Tokyo and Japan's ambassador in Berlin during World War II; in Gaithersburg, Md. One of the messages Rowlett and his team deciphered detailed German defenses against the anticipated Allied invasion of Berlin...
...time, immature youngsters cannot reason, and when told no, they respond, "No one is going to tell me I can't!" or "I'll show them!" So we have little boys and juvenile adults playing with real weapons and with the very existence of life. MARY S. BAHR Pikesville, Md...
Among writers, you forgot Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer and the two great Marguerites, Duras and Yourcenar. FRANCOISE HRADSKY Bethesda, Md...