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...group's founder, vanished like their children. Critics today argue, with some validity, that the mothers got away with what they did because their demands were more humanistic than political, and because Argentine society tends, like most of Latin America, to worship the mother as an extension of the Virgin Mary. (In Spanish, the phenomenon is known as marianismo.) But the undeniable fact is that, in a society in which the newspapers (with one exception) were silent, the courts were a farce, the police formed an arm of the military government and members of opposition groups were being tortured...
...blue riband" traditionally awarded for top speed, and, presumably, the Hales Trophy glorifying it. But the ocean-liner fraternity cried foul. The curator of the U.S. Merchant Marine Museum, where the trophy is housed, refused to yield it to "a toy boat," as he called Branson's $2.3 / million Virgin Atlantic Challenger II, with its two turbocharged, 2,000-h.p. diesel engines. Retorted Branson: "To say (the award) has only to do with passenger liners is a lot of codswallop." To back his claim, he has decided to create his own trophy for the next successful Atlantic challenger. Branson will...
...sugar broker from the Virgin Islands named Sosthenes Behn founded International Telephone & Telegraph, hoping to link callers around the world much as AT&T had connected phone users in the U.S. For decades thereafter, Behn's successors at ITT remained true to his vision. Even when ITT's acquisitive chairman Harold Geneen began buying dozens of companies in such fields as aerospace, bakery goods and cosmetics in the 1960s and 1970s, he kept ITT firmly planted in global telecommunications...
...63rd birthday surrounded by three grandchildren at Disney World in Florida, mesmerized by the fantasies conjured up in the Magic Kingdom. For the past six months, Yelena Bonner has been nurtured by her family and awed by the wonders of the U.S. She has soaked up sun in the Virgin Islands, seen Cats on Broadway and stayed up all night with her 85-year-old mother Ruth, leafing through the pages of an old family photo album. Nonetheless, says Alexei Semyonov, a son from her previous marriage, "she never really could relax. Her future in the Soviet Union was continually...
...graceful, two-masted vessel, just back from a 15-month European tour, had anchored briefly at the U.S. Virgin Island port of St. John, and was sailing north toward Baltimore on May 14 when the weather turned nasty. The twelve crew members shortened sail to handle the heavy winds. Suddenly, recalled First Mate John Flanagan, "a wall of wind and water" smashed into the Pride with devastating force. "In what seemed like slow motion the boat laid over to port," said Flanagan. There was no time to sound an alarm over the Pride's radio...