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...Executions, a prime instrument of terror, went on. Schoolteacher Olga Herrera Marcos, charged with squealing on rebels, may become the first woman "war criminal" to face a firing squad. Her death sentence has been appealed. Four former soldiers, sentenced to prison terms by the trial court, were sentenced to death upon "appeal" by the government. Death toll...
Born. To Harold Connolly, 27, the U.S.'s 1956 Olympic hammer-throwing champion and world-record holder, and Olga Fikotova Connolly, 26, Czechoslovakia's husky 1956 Olympic women's discus champion, whose stadium romance led to marriage through endless festoons of Red tape: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Mark. Weight: 11 Ibs. 13 oz.-just 4 Ibs. 3 oz. less than his father's hammer...
...tragedy when a mad Barbados servant burned down the house, murdered Mamah and her two children. Wright's second marriage, to monocled Sculptress Miriam Noel, wore thin in three years. Soon Wright was in the tabloid headlines again, jailed for crossing state borders with a handsome Montenegrin. Olga (Olgivanna) Lazovich, the woman who later became his third wife...
...Died. Olga Knipper-Chekhova, 89, widow of Anton Chekhov (who called her "my little crocodile"), Moscow Art Theater actress for 40 years; in Moscow...
Defeat & Death. Olga and Frank ignored the threats; Olga, in fact, had high hopes that the baby's arrival might win over Frank once and for all. Then, in mid-November, Olga's hospital friends reported her mysteriously missing. Frank was no help. Santa Barbara and Ventura police turned up the phony annulment and, with help from the FBI, followed a trail that led to two characters of Santa Barbara's seamy Haley Street area: blade-thin Augustine Baldonado, 25, and Luis Moya, a 22-year-old convict (dope and street fighting). Both finally confessed that mother...