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DIED. Fania Fénelon, 75, singer in the all-female inmate orchestra at the Auschwitz death camp, who recounted her ordeal in the memoir Playing for Time; of a heart attack; in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. Fénelon's 1976 book was made into a television movie four years later, with Vanessa Redgrave portraying Fénelon despite objections because of pro-Palestine Liberation Organization statements...
Last Wednesday, after 16 months behind bars, a jubilant Geter was set free to applause from a crowd of supporters. Later he celebrated at a Christmas party attended by lawyers, investigators and fellow engineers. His ordeal may not be over, though. He is out on a $10,000 bond put up by E-Systems coworkers. For the charges to be completely dropped, he must pass a lie-detector test. "If he fails the test," says D.A. Wade, "he will have a new trial." And two top prosecutors in Wade's office have been assigned to the case. But Geter...
Throughout their ordeal the genial Heineken (whose value is estimated at more than $500 million) and his loyal employee of 40 years remained surprisingly healthy. They were nonetheless kept constantly on edge. In a brief statement distributed after their release, Heineken wrote, "I always saved one slice of bread for the night, because you could never be sure that there would be bread the following morning," while Doderer wryly noted that the Chinese food he was served by the kidnapers "didn't taste as good as that of my usual Chinese place." As soon as their chains were...
...some officials of NOW, seemed embarrassed by her checkered past and shied away from supporting her. Foat said, "They looked at me as something that might dirty the corporate image." But no California nightmare is without its elements of the American dream: Foat now plans a book about her ordeal and a film company is already working on turning the tale into a movie...
...would-be baseball commissioner could have benefited from a friendly chat with me on the subject of character and The Game. I would have told him how I (and, presumably, all the seniors on this year's Crimson team) underwent in 1980 the ordeal of witnessing two Harvard kickoff receivers--whose names I have graciously forgotten--converge, bump and fall down like Keystone Kops while Yale recovered the loose ball, setting up a touchdown. That was a real character-building experience. Watching Yale's unstoppable 1981 squad crush the Crimson falls into the same category. Enduring two shutouts...