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SUMMER OF '49 by David Halberstam (Morrow; $21.95). A quirky and informal account of the American League pennant race between the Red Sox and the Yankees deepens into a nostalgic memoir of a vanishing era, when people listened to the radio, traveled by train and went around the corner to see a movie...
...worst train disaster in Soviet history. The explosion thrust a pillar of fire into the nighttime Siberian skies that was visible to observers more than 60 miles away. The bodies of 137 of the 1,200 passengers aboard the trains were recovered, 53 more died en route to the hospital and an unknown number were completely incinerated in the blast, making a precise toll impossible. More than 700 passengers and crew, many of them horribly burned, required hospitalization. The victims included many children on their way to summer camps on the Black Sea. On Saturday a train traveling from that...
SUMMER OF '49 by David Halberstam (Morrow; $21.95). A quirky and informal account of the American League pennant race between the Red Sox and the Yankees deepens into a nostalgic memoir of a vanishing era, when people listened to the radio, traveled by train and went around the corner to see a movie...
...President Bok's annual report to the Board of Overseers asserts that the Kennedy School must place more emphasis on a humanistic curriculum and public service if it is to train top government leaders. Less than 40 percent of the school's 1985 graduates, writes Bok, work in the public sector...
While other graduating scholar-athletes have already hung up the spikes or skates, Kaplan continues to train for the Maccabiah Games, which will take place in Israel this summer. As a member of the United States delegation to what is often called the Jewish Olympics, Kaplan will spend three weeks with 4000 athletes from 41 nations...