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There used to be no cure for the ennui of the returned hero. Now there is and it is worse than the disease. It is celebrityhood. Last winter a Washington radio station began a news roundup with this: "Joe DiMaggio, baseball hall of famer, former husband of Marilyn Monroe, and also Mr. Coffee, had surgery today." Hero status, unless arrested by artistic device (the fade-out) or tragedy (an early death), decays. There is a trajectory to fame, and it points downward...
...roundup of 86 Jews at Lyons's General Union of French Israelites in February 1943. Of the 76 who were later sent to death camps, only five are known to have survived...
...spent most of the remaining war years finishing his studies. He later admitted he was a first lieutenant on the staff of German Group E in the Balkans from 1942 to 1945. But he repeatedly denied he was aware of atrocities committed during the brutal German roundup of partisans in the Kozara region of Yugoslavia in the summer of 1942. More than 60,000 people were sent to concentration camps during the campaign, and thousands died in the process. Investigators also believe that Waldheim participated in the deportation of Greek Jews to Nazi death camps in 1944 and helped turn...
...Terry Waite on Celebrity Roundup any time in the near future. The same press that hailed him as the last hope of the Lebanese hostages now fills the spaces that once broadcast his message of hope with spreads on seasonal fashion trends and recipes for triple-tiered Jellocakes. People magazine, which hailed him as one of "1986's 10 most interesting people," has dropped him from their party list. Terry Waite, seized several weeks ago by Muslim fundamentalist, is a media nonentity...
Just how far does the Government plan to go in its roundup of insider traders? The distance, apparently. Until now, jittery Wall Streeters could take comfort that the targets would be largely the most flagrant, Ivan Boesky- like abusers. But that reassuring notion rapidly evaporated in the aftermath of the Government's arrest this month of three high-ranking Wall Street officials, two of whom had allegedly made insider-trading profits only for their firms, not for personal gain. The cases suggested that prosecutors plan to go after not just greedy mavericks but overzealous employees and the companies for whom...