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...Zinns of western Pennsylvania. From the abduction of the youngest sister, Deride a "strangely haunted child" to the "final bold stroke of midnight, December 31, 1899." "Although presented as a true chronicle the events tend towards the fantastic from the initial sequence in which Deride disappears in a black silk balloon. Yet such events are treated as commonplace (if confusing) as is sexual mutability. Neither ghost nor devil is long absent from the Zinn hearth...
DIED. Eugene Loring, 71, dancer and choreographer whose Billy the Kid (1938) is a classic De Mille-style Americana ballet, and who also created dances in such films as Silk Stockings and Funny Face (1957); of cancer; in Kingston...
...equipped with modern wiring, insulation, safety glass, fireproofing and brakes. Much of the marquetry and upholstery had to be remade, some of it to the original specifications, discovered, miraculously, at a cabinetmaker's in Chelmsford, England. Some 250 Orient Express artifacts, from bud vases to rose silk-shaded lamps, were recreated...
...difficult to imagine two nations more different than ours," said the leader of the ancient country that is the world's most populous democracy. Clad in a silk sari, India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was met on the White House South Lawn last week by the President of the world's most powerful democracy. Her White House visit, highlighted by a glittering state banquet, was part of a whirlwind tour of America intended to reverse a decade of cool relations between the two countries. With a grandeur and grace that was reciprocated by her hosts...
...eagles like the Americans to Old Baldie, which has adorned everything from 19th century $20 gold pieces and 20th century quarters to brass door knockers and even mass-produced "colonial-style" paper-towel dispensers. American craftsmen have featured the proud bird on such homely items as belt buckles, silk kerchiefs, pewter plates, pillowcases and coverlets, bureaus and mantelpieces. More than 1,700 U.S. crags, towns and waterways have been named for the eagle, from Eagleville, Calif, (pop. 200), to Eagle Lake in Maine...