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...Raymond Hallery, now a retired publisher, was in an adjunct of the Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz when the official announcement that the Germans had surrendered came over the prisoners' long-secret radio. The French began singing the Marseillaise. "There was the joy of being alive, but it was mixed with much sadness," Hallery says. "Two hundred to three hundred people a day were still dying in the camp, from exhaustion and hunger. There were bodies everywhere." Hallery went to the infirmary where one of his friends lay nearing the end. "I know I'm finished," the friend said...
...subject to external manipulation. When the Bomb dropped, people not only saw a weapon that could boil the planet and create a death-in-life; they saw yet one more proof of their impotence. We live in a world of "virile weapons and impotent men," wrote the French historian, Raymond Aron, shortly before his death in 1983. We saw a vision of the future in Hiroshima, but we also saw ourselves, and (again) we did not like what...
Harvard dropped both ends of a double-header to Providence (16-5) at Raymond Field on March 30, failing to rejuvenate a lineup that stalled throughout the spring vacation...
...positive sign is this week's Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum, which matches promising movie projects with investors. Organizers expected 150 submissions?and received 280 from around the region. "Hong Kong can really develop its status as a film-financing center for Asia," says Raymond Yip, director of service promotion at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, which organized the forum. One challenge will be getting Hong Kong's banking sector involved in film financing. The button-down banks have long been leery of the flamboyant film industry, but they've shown increasing interest...
...cameras clicked in wild anticipation. Was Big Mac ready to admit that he too had supersized himself with steroids? Would he acknowledge the danger and offer a lesson to the millions of teenagers who still look up to him? Would he take up the cause of Denise and Raymond Garibaldi and Donald Hooton, who testified earlier that steroids killed their young sons...