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...sweet," it began, telling of how he used to "think of you and picture ourselves together again . . . I love you with all my heart and no one will & ever come between us." No one did. Married in 1950, they reared five children. Robert Kirsch, now 66, of North Huntingdon, Pa., was a radioman en route to his B-17 squadron in Foggia, Italy. He wrote seven of the undelivered letters, two of which were to his parents, who are living in Florida. As he picked up his missives last week, he observed dryly, "If I had known that this...
Carla Stough's parents were mighty proud when they learned she would graduate in the top ten of her high school class in Billsburg, Pa. But because money in the family is very tight (Carla's mother is a cook, and her father is disabled), there seemed no possibility that Carla could go on to a top college after graduation. In February, however, the Stoughs heard that she had qualified for special admission to selective Bard College in Annandale-on- Hudson, N.Y. Under the Bard plan, Carla will owe only the modest annual sum of $3,742, which she would...
...reach and free itself of the need to refuel ships if nuclear power plants could be squeezed into submarines' tiny hulls. Rickover's work eventually spawned not only the first nuclear-powered sub, the Nautilus, launched in January 1955, but the first civilian nuclear power reactor, at Shippingport, Pa. Today more than 150 of 554 U.S. naval vessels steam under nuclear power; American submarines can stay submerged for months and traverse the waters beneath the polar ice caps...
...from a vanished, less hectic age. As a cool breeze billowed sails and spirits and Navy guns fired in salute, some spectators reacted with the quiet awe that is more commonly found in gazing at great cathedrals. "I feel like I'm watching history," said Julie Cook of Brookville, Pa. She was indeed...
...first glance, Herbert Cantley of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., seems an unexceptional 46-year-old man who earns an honest living renovating and painting houses. But that is only his latest career. Last year he was fired from his job as a sales manager at the Philadelphia office of Shearson Lehman Bros., a New York-based brokerage firm, after authorities began investigating % large unreported currency transactions at the company. Last week that investigation finished with a flourish: a federal grand jury indicted Shearson Lehman, Cantley and six other people on charges of laundering $1.2 million for an illegal gambling syndicate...