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Lillian Menasche Katz, 54, started the $42 million Lillian Vernon Corp. in the back of her former husband's dress shop in Mount Vernon, N.Y., with an initial investment of $2,000. Her current offerings are utilitarian (a wall-mounted kitchen scale), frivolous (an initialed toothpaste tube squeezer) or elegant (a nickel-plated travel shaving brush...
...funeral will be held tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. at the Levine Chapel on 470 Harvard Street in Brookline. A shuttle bus will leave at 9 a.m. from Harvard Hillel on 74 Mount Auburn Street to take students to the funeral...
...faint whine of a helicopter peals from the north. The two-way radio crackles to life: "We're two miles out, coming in with seven horses." That sends Tracy Robison, 16, leaping onto a sorrel mount. He wedges the horse behind a mound of sagebrush and keeps as still as he can. Gil Crawford, 58, dives for cover behind an embankment, grabbing a yellow rope that will release the trap gate on the quarry...
...Gate!" screams the rider, as the horses enter the enclosure. Crawford releases the rope, but the gate is jammed and does not close. The pack wheels and madly bolts for the 6-ft.-wide opening. But Robison and his mount block the way. He grabs the hulking steel frame and yanks it shut behind the wild bunch. Confined for the first time, the mustangs bellow with anger. In his fury, an aging stallion throws himself against the steel grating, opening a gash across his forehead...
Last May, 1000 members of the Harvard community held a one-day conference to discuss their concern over the growing nuclear arms race. Out of that meeting came the Waging Peace project, and this week on Veterans Day the group began its campaign to help mount a nation-wide movement demanding multi-national nuclear arms reductions...