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...democracy was hard on central Johannesburg. Crime forced many businesses to flee to safer suburbs; even the stock exchange moved out. But over the past few years the government and business groups have begun redeveloping the city, and visitors are starting to come back. One big success is Newtown, long the city's theater district and now full of restaurants and other attractions. Access to the area is easier with the opening of the Nelson Mandela Bridge over a number of railway tracks. The mainstay of the district remains Market Theatre, which defied apartheid laws against mixed audiences long before...
DIED. BURKE MARSHALL, 80, practical, level-headed legal strategist during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who played a critical role in the desegregation of public facilities in the South; in Newtown, Conn. As Assistant Attorney General in charge of civil rights, the former antitrust lawyer crafted a truce in 1963 between business owners and civil rights activists in the embattled city of Birmingham, Ala.; helped engineer the admission of the University of Mississippi's first black student, James Meredith; and helped draft and push through the Civil Rights...
Indeed, the 6’1 Gellert—a guard who plays at small forward—came to Harvard from Newtown, Conn., as the point guard who would eventually replace star Tim Hill ’99. A top scholastic player in Connecticut, Gellert was the consummate athlete, starring also in baseball and one season of football, when he grabbed a state-record 17 interceptions. Guess he’s always gravitated towards defense...
Terry Casto, 54, acted quickly when he retired as chief pilot and interim aviation director at AT&T. Since he had hired temp pilots from Corporate Aviators in Newtown, Conn., he called there. Now he lives--temporarily--in Charlotte, N.C., beefing up a large corporate flight department and earning 1 1/2 times his old salary. When time permits, he and his wife Karen go boating: Hilton Head in winter, Chesapeake Bay in summer. Says Casto: "I'm kind of in the catbird seat." There might be room...
...native of Newtown, CT and a graduate of Newtown High School, Gellert was a varsity letter winner in basketball, baseball and football. In his senior year, Gellert set the state record for interceptions with 17 as a defensive back in football, and was named 1997-98 Basketball Player of the Year by the Connecticut Post...