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...Anyi, then a senior manager in the Ministry of Petroleum, found himself a target because he had worked on Taiwan prior to choosing to return to the mainland shortly before the Communist takeover in 1949. "The Red Guards branded me as a big capitalist and an undercover ((Taiwan)) spy," Liu, 71, recalls with a wry smile. "They kept me in solitary confinement for over a year and later organized a pictorial exhibit of my crimes." These included photos of various articles of Western-style dress belonging to Liu and his wife that Red Guards had found in the course...
Horton's death was only one of a series of unsolved mysteries that have embroiled Gulf Power. Last December Ray Howell, a Pensacola graphic artist who worked for Gulf, traveled to Atlanta but disappeared prior to a scheduled appearance before the grand jury. A month later, former Gulf Power director Robert McRae and his wife were found shot to death at their home in Graceville, Fla. In the weeks since the crash, three dead yellow birds -- which Levin believes are Mafia-style warnings not to divulge the substance of his last conversation with Horton -- have been deposited outside the attorney...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard had 12 hits on the day, while Princeton racked up 21... Last season the Crimson finished fourth in the Ivy title race last season, and has never before played for the championship...Four seniors played their last game in a Harvard uniform--Prior, Rowning, centerfielder Liz Crowley and designated hitter Brita Lind... The tripledigit attendance is believed to be the largest ever for a Harvard softball game...All fifteen Crimson players saw action in the contest...
Nothing, in short, about her prior career hinted that she could be as deft and daring as Harold Lloyd, as rubber-faced as Bert Lahr, as touching as Chaplin -- and more ladylike than Milton Berle. Along with the other foremost icon of the '50s Golden Age of TV, Jackie Gleason, Ball was a larger-than-life talent uniquely suited to the small screen. Her signature series, I Love Lucy, and its successors endured more than two decades in prime time, from 1951 to 1974, one of the few immutables in a sea of social change. Lucy, seen in more than...
Republican strategists were breathing a little easier last week after state legislator Craig Thomas won a special election in Wyoming, called to fill the congressional seat vacated by Dick Cheney when he became Secretary of Defense. In two prior contests to fill House vacancies that had cropped up since George Bush won the White House, the G.O.P. had come up embarrassingly empty-handed...