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When Claus von Billow appeared in Newport, R.I., last week to hear himself sentenced to 30 years in prison, he had a new lawyer on his team, a slight, bespectacled fellow with reddish brown, frizzy hair, seen by some as a cross between Woody Allen and Bozo the Clown. But Von Bülow knows that Alan Dershowitz, 43, is no joke. He got the Harvard law professor out of bed at 7 a.m. six weeks ago to ask him to handle his appeal. Why Dershowitz? To be sure, he is smart, energetic and an expert in criminal...
...mayor in the world," to Frank Sinatra and Marlene Dietrich. Another friend is Saul Bellow, who has provided a vivid portrait: "Kollek is ponderous but moves quickly-a furiously active man. His is a hurtling, not a philosophical soul. His face does not rest passively on its jowls ... His reddish hair falls forward when he goes into action... Everyone serves his ends, and no one seems harmed by such serving...
Midmorning on Oct. 10, 1980, a plane flew low over the foothills of the Khao Khouy Mountains in southern Laos. As it passed above the village of Long Sa, the craft began trailing plumes of reddish-yellow gas. Villagers enveloped in the falling mist felt dustlike particles landing on their skin. The air smelled of burning peppers. Ma Hear, who saw the mist fall on the village from a protected lean-to on a nearby hill, recalled that within minutes many of Long Sa's 1,000 residents fell ill. Itchy rashes, followed by tiny blisters, appeared on their...
Tall and thin, with a scruffy reddish beard and glasses, Hayes, 29, "and getting older by the minute," did not come to the help of the homeless because he was appointed to the job. He simply took on the responsibility. The Georgetown University graduate first noticed the homeless when he began studying law at New York University, just a bottle's throw from the Bowery. "I shared the common myth about them," he recalls. "I assumed that they lived on the street by choice...
Three Dunster-Mather tacklers waited at the five, unharrassed by Lowell blockers...Levine faked right and plunged to the left corner, buried beneath a mountain of flesh and sweaty plastic...Pontrelli launched himself toward the reddish-blue autumn sky, as the four officials simultaneously signaled a touchdown...