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DIED. JAN KARSKI, 86, former Polish diplomat who provided to the West early eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust in World War II, and whose reports on the Warsaw ghetto and a Nazi death camp led to the Allies' statement in 1942 condemning German crimes against the Jews; in Washington...
Several weeks ago, at dinner with friends who have lived in Philadelphia for decades, I asked if there were visible signs of spit-and-polish as the city prepared for the GOP convention. Oh, yes, they replied. In fact, driving from the airport into the city, one notices immediately how remarkably clean the buildings are and how well paved the road is. If someone in the car were to turn around in their seat, however (preferably not the driver) and glance backward toward the airport, one might notice a slight discrepancy: Viewed from this new angle, the buildings stand...
DIED. GUSTAW HERLING, 81, Polish essayist and dissident whose 1953 book, A World Apart, captured in harrowing if dispassionate detail the horrors of his experience in the Soviet gulag; in Naples, Italy...
...flying blimps in North Carolina, and I heard these guys had a prototype," the Boston-born Danneker recalls. "I ran to my wife and said, 'We gotta pack.'" The guys were Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH, the maker of giant airships based in Friedrichshafen, Germany, which hired Danneker to polish up and test-pilot its 120th creation...
...police combing farmland Robinson owns unearthed two more drums. These too contained bodies. One of those was that of Suzette Trouten, 28, a Michigan woman who met Robinson online and traveled to a Kansas motel where he promised her work. Another is thought to be Izabela Lewicka, 22, a Polish immigrant who struck up a friendship with Robinson and, possibly, Lisa Stasi, a Texas single mom whom he employed...