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...Kikwit, Zaire, last month for emergency surgery. But after two operations, surgeons realized they could do nothing for him; his internal organs were hemorrhaging so badly that life was quickly draining from his body. Soon after Kimfumu died, the five medical workers who treated him, including an Italian nun who assisted in the operations, began coming down with their own symptoms: headache and fever, diarrhea, massive bleeding from every body orifice and, within a few days, death...
TELEVISION IN THE 1960s and early '70s did not lack absurdities. It was a time when viewers were entertained by a flying nun, a buxom genie and a suburban witch who twitched her nose. Yet of all the ridiculous TV shows of the era, two stand out for their enduring, unfathomable allure: The Brady Bunch, the sitcom about an adage-spewing stepfamily cavorting on an Astroturf lawn, and Gilligan's Island, the tale of seven mismatched castaways on an island that seemed oddly close to Hollywood. Both shows had a goofy otherworldliness painfully out of step with their tumultuous times...
...really think he is remote from the book. I mean, he's there at the finding of the body. He's there at the postmortem. He's in charge of the investigation, he goes down to the country to see Jean-Philippe Etiene, he goes and sees the nun's sister. I did actually want to have room to develop the other two detectives, develop the relationship between Daniel and Kate, make the novel more of a team effort than the mystery usually...
...know that, no matter what, he's going to take time out to write back to you. The responses aren't long, and they aren't always handwritten. Sometimes he'll scribble his response on the margin of a speech or some document, and Sister Eufrosina -- a Polish nun who's been with him for years -- is very good at making out what he's written and typing it up." She adds, "I think of him as a man who needs to stay in touch with his friends because he is so terribly busy...
...Lockport SOS Village has assembled only 10 of a projected population of 60 children. In one house, Toni Wagner, a Franciscan nun from Dubuque, Iowa, cares for an abandoned family of five siblings, who are white. Michele Haldeman, the "mother" next door, oversees five children, all black, from three different families. The two "families" mix happily in the common yard...