Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Samuel Fuller, 71, a film director and screenwriter who lives in Los Angeles, was 31 when he hit Omaha Beach as a corporal with the 3rd Battalion, 16th Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division, the Big Red One. A small, intense man with a cigar perpetually in his mouth, Fuller returned this month for the first time and felt a little lost. He could not find the pillbox that his unit bypassed on the way to the cliffs beyond the beach. The tall tree on the heights designated before the landing as an assembly point was missing. In a surprised...
Some have even suggested, along with Economist Alfred Telia, that a national lottery be established, patterned on that of Canada, to battle the federal deficit. "It's inevitable," says Samuel Valenza Jr., publisher of Lottery Players Magazine. "Lotteries will sweep the country." Others may be less exuberant, but there is no doubt that for the moment, the stakes are indeed sweeping...
...satisfied with the meagre three pages that President Bok devotes to the issue in his last book and with the few constructive suggestions he has made in his open letters. And before you make any more unfounded and destructive allegations. I suggest that you think before you write. Samuel C. Rickless...
DIED. Alan Schneider, 66, consummate stage director best known for his productions of plays by Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter; of brain injuries received when he was hit by a motorcycle; in London. Schneider was noted for his exacting fidelity to even the most complex script, as he worked to transmit the inner truth of a play rather than impose on it any other vision. He crusaded particularly for Beckett, and his productions of Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape, among others, profoundly influenced the course of modern theater. Also closely associated with Albee...
...gathering included President Eliot, the sculptor French, and Samuel J. Bridge, donor of the statue, who had received an honorary degree in 1880. The statue reportedly cost over...