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...ending up on it increase with the risks. Balloonist Maxie Anderson flew across the Atlantic five years ago in his great silver Double Eagle II; early this summer he and Partner Don Ida crashed and died in Bavaria during a balloon race. In 1978 a New Zealander named Naomi James, 34, became the first woman to circumnavigate the world alone via Cape Horn, only a brief time after learning sailing so that she could share an interest with her yachtsman husband Rob. She retired from competitive sailing to raise a family, and last March her first child, a daughter...
...idea is to have an unintimidating format, and to encourage people to be creative," says Naomi L. Pierce '85, editor of the Blue Book. Other editors of house journals wanted to help writers get published in a less competitive format. "Ours is really an anti-literary magazine," says Antoinette Reed '83, who edited...
Crime and other "worldly" problems rarely touch the plain-living Amish and Mennonite residents of New Holland, Pa. Indeed, no one could recall any precedent for the violence against Naomi Huyard, a frail, friendly woman of 50. On the evening of Nov. 27, the Amish woman left her farmhouse and walked across the road to the home of John and Lillian Herr to store several boxes of cauliflower in a freezer in their garage. When she did not return, her sister became alarmed and notified neighbors, who called the police. After a three-hour search of the neighborhood, a state...
...Jimmy, a lapsed Mennonite who had been paroled on a burglary charge three weeks before Huyard's death, denies killing her. Family members on both sides say that the victim and accused had no reason to dislike each other. "If somebody would have told Naomi that boy was there, she would have gone anyway," says Isaac Huyard, one of four brothers who live on nearby farms. Herr's mother says Jimmy was asleep when she left for work on the day of the crime. John Herr, 60, an industrial custodian, returned from work at about...
...Amish neighbors, drive horse-and-buggy rigs and wear homemade black garb, has cleaved to its faith and offered the accused killer forgiveness. As he painted a shed on his hilltop property, Isaac Huyard cited the Bible: "Resist not evil, but overcome evil with good." David E. Huyard, 75, Naomi's uncle and the family patriarch, suggested that the murder is symptomatic of a growing rebelliousness among Amish and Mennonite youth, who are taught to live peacefully and according to the Bible. "We're being tested and tried in many different ways," he says. "I believe...