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...have forgotten, or perhaps he never knew, is that not all who test positive for the HLTV-III virus will develop AIDS. Does he suggest that millions of Americans be in terned for 50 or 60 years? Perhaps all those people can be sent to Madagascar or Martha's Vineyard...
...hours a day at his office. A fitness enthusiast and jogger, Shevardnadze installed an exercise room and a sauna in his home and threatened to fire overweight officials unless they got into shape in a matter of weeks. Shevardnadze has said his hobbies are beekeeping and tending his private vineyard. He is well read in the Russian and Georgian classics and has even scribbled a bit of lyric poetry. Shevardnadze and his wife Nanuli, a journalist, have a daughter Manana, in her 30s, and a son Paata, in his late 20s, but as Nanuli once confided to Borodin, family life...
...stable" and "has got to be a comfort to the passengers." In Richmond, Mo., a small town northeast of Kansas City, friends and neighbors stayed up to follow the ordeal of Captain Testrake, who in his spare time raises horses, restores small antique planes and nurtures a recently planted vineyard on his nearby farm. "He's been an airman for a long time," said Howard Hill, editor of the Richmond Daily News. "He won't panic...
DIED. Henry Beetle Hough, 88, journalist, author and environmental conscience who owned, edited and published the Vineyard Gazette, one of America's best country weeklies, from 1920 to 1968 and continued as its editor almost until his death; in Edgartown, Mass., on the offshore island of Martha's Vineyard. Hough's often poetic descriptions of everyday island events and the passing seasons, and his fervent quest to protect the Vineyard from mindless development, brought a steady growth in readership, while his popular book Country Editor (1940), followed by 21 novels, histories, children's tales and collected pieces, spread his fame...
John Hersey, 70, is back home on Martha's Vineyard after wintering in Key West. But his attention is already turning westward, across Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay, over the American landmass, toward the Pacific and beyond. The New Yorker once again has asked him to visit and write about Hiroshima, 40 years after the city was destroyed by a single bomb and 39 years after Hersey marked the first anniversary of atomic warfare with the most celebrated piece of journalism to come out of World War II. Hiroshima filled the magazine's entire August 31, 1946, issue. Published...