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Attica (pop. 2,900) is in Wyoming County, in the heart of New York's productive farm belt, lush with acres of sweet corn and rolling green hills. Red barns and tall silver silos sit fat amidst fields of goldenrod and purple wild flowers. Along Route 98, small, white clapboard farmhouses ringed with zinnias and neatly clipped lawns are spaced with the regularity of mileposts. Route 98 cuts from north to south and connects the New York State Thru way with Attica about twelve miles to the south...
Television did not even have radio's early period of individual adventure. It was born full-grown from the head of NBC chief David Sarnoff, with commercial radio's soiled silver spoon firmly embedded in its mouth. It didn't take long to develop I Love Lucy, My Little Margie, and Ed Sullivan's Talk of the Town, In various facsimilies, they're still being aired...
BARBARA WEILER Silver Spring...
...began 14 years later. Last month a man calling himself Carlos Maggi, "brother" of the fictitious Maria, received permission for the exhumation and transport of Maria Maggi's remains to Madrid. The coffin's wooden casing was found to be rotting, but the coffin itself, reportedly of silver with a glass window showing the woman's face, was in excellent condition. So was the corpse. After Evita's death, Perón paid the famed Spanish pathologist Pedro Ara $100,000 to embalm her body the way the Russians had embalmed the remains of Lenin...
Actually, Fefferman has already had a reasonably long career as a mathematician. He began his studies in earnest at age nine: elementary math, he discovered, could not explain college physics. He started taking a few courses at the University of Maryland, near his home in Silver Spring, at twelve. He skipped high school and formally entered the university at 14, He wrote his first major paper at 15; Princeton awarded him a doctorate at 19. He taught there for a year before going to Chicago...