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...collection of travel essays, When the Going Was Good, with a heartbroken valedictory to a vanished Golden Age of travel that is, in effect, a valentine to his own lost youth. In every traveler's eulogy there is a strain of elegy, and every traveler hearkens to the raven's knelling cry of "Nevermore...
Sheela, a raven-haired 35-year-old who joined the sect in 1973, was the leader of the first band of Rajneeshees that settled in 1981 in what was then Antelope, Ore., a hamlet of 40. As their numbers increased, the sannyasins (followers) bought out older residents, registered to vote and took over the city council, changing the name Antelope to Rajneesh in 1984. Sheela was responsible for the scheme to recruit about 3,500 homeless people for the commune last fall, in what observers believe was an attempt to load the voting rolls against longer-term residents of Wasco...
SEPARATED. John De Lorean, 59, flamboyant creator of the ill-fated sports car that bears his name, who was acquitted one month ago of federal charges of conspiracy to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine; and Cristina Ferrare, 34, raven-haired cover girl who is the frothy new co-host of a Southern California morning TV talk show; after eleven years of marriage; in Los Angeles. The split is described as a "trial separation" by De Lorean's attorney, and the pair is currently seeing a marriage counselor. Notes Ferrare's manager, Arthur Gregory: "What...
DIED. Walter Rauff, 77, one of the most infamous fugitive Nazi war criminals, who designed the "Black Raven" mobile gas-chamber vans that were used to exterminate perhaps 250,000 East Europeans, most of them Jews, in 1941-42; of lung cancer; in Santiago, Chile. A colonel in the SS, Rauff fled Europe after World War II and settled in 1958 in Chile where he lived in relative obscurity and comfort. Since 1963, Chile has rejected appeals from Israel, France and West Germany for Rauff's extradition to face murder charges...
...much to tax, when to call an election and where to send the troops." He ventures toward the Arctic Circle, to Yellowknife, capital of the Northwest Territories, where the big golf tournament starts at midnight and the rule book states, "No penalty assessed when ball carried off by raven." Richler finds ecumenism where others see only ice: on Great Slave Lake, he is told, Indians net vast numbers of pike that end as gefilte fish in Chicago...