Word: torrington
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...University of Alberta had dug out from Arctic permafrost. Buried in 1846, the corpses are in flawless condition, down to the 19th century outfits and funeral head wrappings. The hands of one of the corpses, says Beattie, are long and delicate, like a pianist's. Petty Officer John Torrington, 20, left, Able Seaman John Hartnell, 25, and Royal Marine William Braine, 34, died after the two ships of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition in search of the Northwest Passage were trapped by thick ice near Canada's remote Beechey Island. Over the next year...
Joseph F.J. Curi Torrington, Conn...
Mark R. Zimmerman of Torrington, Conn. claims in a lawsuit filed at New Hampshire U.S. district court that the college's Committee on Standing and Conduct denied him a fair hearing...
BORN. To Susan Saint James, 36, actress, best known as giddy Sally McMillan on TV's McMillan and Wife, and her husband Dick Ebersol, 35, executive producer of Saturday Night Live: their first child, a son; in Torrington, Conn. Name: Charles Duncan. Weight...
There are sympathizers in the would-be adoptive state. Last week Wyoming State Representative Douglas Chamberlain introduced a bill supporting the secessionists. He got only 29 of the 40 necessary votes, but plans another try next year. "The general feeling," says Mary Paxson, of Torrington, Wyo., "is that it's never going to happen. We're nattered that they want us, but we really don't need them...