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Javits' wife Marian decided early on that Washington was a Government "company town" and refused to live there, pursuing instead her interest in the arts in New York City. This arrangement led to an unconventional marriage, which Javits described as "two lives interacting and intersecting but not congruent." The discovery...
If that is the case, military strength will count all the more. Under Marcos' Chief of Staff, the despised General Fabian Ver, the Philippine armed forces became corrupt, undisciplined and top-heavy with overage brass. Ramos, the West Point graduate and respected professional who took Ver's place, says he...
Thomas said it was the second contest she had ever won and came only one week after her first triumph, a $40 winning ticket in the Massachusetts state lottery. Asked if she cared to speculate on air travel in the year 2015, she said, "No, please let me retire gracefully...
"We had known he wasn't going to be around for a lot longer, but we weren't exactly sure when he was going to retire," Harvard Co-Captain Steve Farrell said. "He's been a great coach and we're all really going to miss him."
Central to the motivation of both men was General Ver, who had effectively appropriated their functions within the military and the Cabinet. The U.S. has long pressured Marcos to get rid of Ver, who last December was acquitted along with 25 others of conspiracy charges in the August 1983 assassination...