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Died. John Charles Herndon, 55, Idaho Democratic gubernatorial candidate, a relatively unknown lawyer whose slim hopes of winning in November increased last month when State Senator Don W. Samuelson defeated incumbent Governor Robert Smylie for the Republican nomination; of injuries suffered when a light plane taking him to a political meeting crashed; near Stanley, Idaho...
...used," because its very existence forces society to contemplate genocide. Tobacco and alcohol advertising, he believes, also teach a subtle disregard for human welfare, as does the U.S. acceptance of the annual total of traffic fatalities-"vehicular violence." Even patriotism comes under Wertham's rebuke. Monuments to the Unknown Soldier "do not fulfill our duty to the victims," but in fact feed the 20th century's growing disregard for the victim as a faceless statistic...
...officials, suffering from a "calcified right tendon," and might never be able to compete again. Maria Vittoria Trio, a raven-haired Italian broad jumper, refused to submit to a physical on religious grounds. "I have been raised a Catholic," she said, "and I refuse to undress in front of unknown people...
...oddity besides: a lefthander. Experts still sneered at Karl's credentials. For one thing, he had rarely chosen to fight away from Germany and the tender solicitude of German referees-like the one who forgot how to count when Mildenberger was flattened in the first round by unknown Dave Bailey last September. (Mildenberger eventually won the fight on points...
According to standard art-market plots, Millar should have kept mum, sent an unknown agent to the auction and picked up a six-figure painting for a three-figure pittance. But as a public-service scholar and a proper servant of the Crown, he says, his only ethical course was to get the painting properly identified. Besides, as he somewhat testily adds, the Crown collection "already has a great number of Rubenses." Millar sought out Christie's Carritt, diffidently asked: "Isn't that a rather important picture you've got in your sale?" Carritt took a quick...