Word: toed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Frantisek Kriegel, 71, Czechoslovak physician and politician; of a heart attack; in Prague. After serving his profession and political conscience as a medical officer in the Spanish Civil War, with Mao Tse-tung's forces resisting Japanese aggression and, with the U.S. Army during World War II, Kriegel...
DIED. Chang Kuo-t'ao, 82, one of the twelve founders of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 and early rival to Mao Tse-tung for the party's leadership; in Toronto. Chairman of the C.C.P.'s First Congress and member of the party's original...
DIED. Friedrich Ebert, 85, mayor of East Berlin from 1948 to 1967 and member of the East German Politburo; of a heart attack; in East Berlin. The eldest son of the Weimar Republic's first President, Ebert was jailed and harassed under Hitler and joined East Germany's...
DIED. Sonia Delaunay, 94, pioneering modernist painter and seminal designer of the art deco look; in Paris. Ukrainian-born Sonia Terk moved to Paris in 1905 and made a splash as an innovative colorist. In 1910 she married Cubist Robert Delaunay, whose work and thought came to overshadow and fuse...
For Boston University Law Professor William Schwartz, the holiday season got off to a fast start last week. Massachusetts authorities announced an agreement that gives him a $799,000 fee for negotiating a settlement in a dispute involving a fleet of trolley cars claimed to be defective. Because the cars...