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Some of them had not even heard the news when they arrived before 7 a.m. at the factory in Mount Vernon, N.Y., 25 minutes up the train line from Manhattan, to begin assembling printing presses. When one of the employees roared up to the plant in his auto shouting "We won! We won!" some of his friends figured he was just kidding around. After all, such good fortune was hard to believe: against odds of 6 million to 1, who could believe that 21 blue-collar workers, all but two of them immigrants from such places as Poland, Paraguay, China...
Besides the lucky 21 in Mount Vernon, one was a 36-year-old bachelor computer consultant from Brooklyn, who announced, "I can afford to live in Manhattan now." The other was a 29-year-old mother of three from Troy, N.Y., who waited two days to step forward because she had to discuss how to split the money with her family. In the end she took 50% of the nearly $14 million, with the remainder divided equally between her mother and sister...
When Terry Fox, who lost a leg to cancer, started a 1980 run across Canada to raise money for research, no one was more profoundly affected than Steve Fonyo, a boy from Vernon, B.C., who had also lost a leg to the disease. Fox raised more than $20 million before the spreading cancer ended his run; he died in 1981. But his spirit lived, as 14 months ago in St. John's, Nfld., Fonyo dipped his toe into the Atlantic and embarked on his own "journey for lives." Last week, after grinding down 4,924 miles, 17 pairs of running...
Huang's background includes two years as a research assistant on political economy issues for Raymond Vernon, the eminent Dillon Professor of International Affairs Emeritus, Vernon calls Huang "outstanding, bright, Industrious--everything you want in a research assistant...
Contact: Vernon Douglas...