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...Harvard Victory, a cargo ship built in 1945, has left the moth-ball fleet for the Vietnam...
Died. Lars ("Larry") Rue, 72, oldest active U.S. foreign correspondent, stationed in Bonn, an astute, barnstorming political reporter, onetime Paris and London bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, who in five decades covered nearly every major European political event, often in his own Gipsy-Moth biplane, giving vivid accounts of King Feisal's 1920 enthronement in Damascus, the Russian famine of 1921, Hitler's Munich putsch, the East Berlin and Hungarian uprisings; following a heart attack; in Bad Godesberg, Germany...
...moth proverbial from the chrysalis...
...hunched, squinty-eyed penpusher, ridiculed at his office, who all winter long must suffer the cold winds of St. Petersburg whipping through his gauze thin overcoat. Compelled to buy a new one at painful cost, he talks to it, sleeps with it, defends it against a threatening moth. Next day, miraculously, Akaky Akakievich and his overcoat create a sen sation at work. His former tormentors are now backslapping friends; he is even invited to a champagne party. But on the way home that night, ruffians accost Akakievich, steal his coat and with it his reason for existence. Again friendless...
Eight nurses and a doctor at New York University Hospital contracted rubella last fall, and some of them passed on the infection to roommates, family and friends. The nurses and the doctor had all been caring for babies who were malformed because their mothers had had rubella. But the moth ers had been sick from six to eight months earlier. Surely the babies could not still be carrying the virus? As a matter of fact they were, Dr. Louis Z. Cooper told the New York Academy of Medicine. Worse, they were shedding it and spreading it all around them...