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...Rochelle, N.Y., a hulking 250-lb. furniture mover and Nazi cultist named Frederick W. Cowan, 33. returned to his job after a two-week suspension and exploded in a St. Valentine's Day massacre. Packing five guns, he burst into his moving company's warehouse, shot to death four co-workers and a policeman, wounded five other people, then put one of his guns to his head and blew his brains...
According to Crowley, the latest mover at the Paperback Booksmith, aside from "Humboldt's Gift" by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, has been a book titled the "Cat Catalogue" by Judy Fireman. "I guess it is about everything you always wanted to know about cats," Crowley says. "I don't know why it's so popular. I haven't read it, but I suppose you'd have to say people like cats. We can't keep enough of the books on the table...
Grechko had died suddenly and unexpectedly at 72 in Moscow of an apparent heart attack. After lying in state for 24 hours, he was interred in the Kremlin wall, the burial spot for Soviet heroes. Grechko had been the chief mover in Russia's shift over the past decade from a primarily defensive military machine built around big, nuclear-tipped missiles to the balanced, varied -and growing-land, air and sea force that now gives sleepless nights to NATO planners, and has become an issue in the U.S. presidential campaign...
...past dozen years, the prime mover behind Bloomingdale's has been Marvin Traub, 50, co-leader with Chairman Lawrence Lachman of what has become known throughout U.S. retailing as "the Bloomingdale's gang." Traub, the son of a corsetmaker, was wounded in World War II and came back with one leg shorter than the other; he wears a built-up shoe yet walks briskly and jogs ten minutes daily before leaving his Tudor-style home in Scarsdale. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1949, he went to work briefly for Alexander's at $100 a week as an assistant...
...session were Shulamith Firestone, Ellen Willis and Robin Morgan, now all familiar names in feminist circles. "All of a sudden I knew I was home," says Brownmiller. "I knew I was where I belonged." As a member of the New York Radical Feminists, she was a prime mover behind two major feminist meetings: a conference on prostitution and a 1971 speak-out on rape. Laying out the program on rape, she thought, "My God, I'm organizing a book...