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...appearances, Noah Lottick of Kingston, Pa., had been a normal, happy 24-year-old who was looking for his place in the world. On the day last June when his parents drove to New York City to claim his body, they were nearly catatonic with grief. The young Russian-studies scholar had jumped from a 10th-floor window of the Milford Plaza Hotel and bounced off the hood of a stretch limousine. When the police arrived, his fingers were still clutching $171 in cash, virtually the only money he hadn't yet turned over to the Church of Scientology...
...born into a comfortable, 10-generation American family in Allegheny, Pa. (now part of Pittsburgh). Her father, a doctor, was a strong influence on her personality. He frowned on dancing, yet he once admonished her, "Martha, you must never lie to me, because movement never lies, and when I see your body I'll know you are lying." She never forgot that, and a passionate integrity drove her every gesture. Extravagant she might be, or austere, but never false...
...there is a break of at least a few more hours before another inversion occurs. As the air grows more polluted, however, environmentalists fear the creation of a lethal inversion that remains fixed for days -- like the one that killed 20 people in the smokestack town of Donora, Pa., in 1948 or the killer fog that claimed the lives of 4,000 people in London in 1952. Even with the closure of the Azcapotzalco refinery, both Mexico's government and its industry will have to work harder at controlling pollution for years to come before the people of Mexico City...
Randolph Marshall, 31, could not at first come to terms with the owners of the house he wanted to buy in Levittown, Pa. They did not want to accept a bid below $139,000, and he would not offer more than $128,000. Then, using a multiple-listing book, Marshall picked out 25 houses in the area that appealed to him. He was shocked to learn that all had been sold. Said he: "I got a little bit of buyer's panic." Marshall went back to the first home and last month signed a contract...
Radcliffe's main competition will come outside of the Ivy League and mostly in tournament play. After a match with neighboring Tufts in early April, the team will compete in the Seven Sisters Tournament at Bryn Mawr, PA on April 13 and 14. A week later the squad will play in the Ivy Tournament, which the team chose to compete in instead of the New England Tournament...