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DIED. Ellsworth Bunker, 90, patrician, unflappable diplomat under seven Presidents, who epitomized the old-school foreign service officer during his many key assignments; in Brattleboro, Vt. A graduate of Yale, Bunker was an executive in the sugar industry for 35 years before President Truman named him to be Ambassador to Juan Perón's Argentina in 1951; he was later posted to Italy, India and Nepal. Bunker helped avert a war between The Netherlands and Indonesia in 1962, and three years later mediated between factions in the Dominican Republic. Called from retirement and sent to Viet...
...fellow students share her enthusiasm; many look forward not only to using their newly learned skills but also to coming back to the school for more advanced courses. For all of them, the stay in Brooklin is a valuable learning experience. For some, like Chris Everett, 16, a Danville, Vt., high school student who came to the school to build a Nutshell pram, it is something more. "When I finish high school, I'll go home with a diploma," says she. "When I finish up here, I'll go home with a boat." -By Peter Stoler
DIED. James F. Fixx, 52, guru of the fitness generation who wrote two bestselling books explaining the mechanics and extolling the benefits of jogging, The Complete Book of Running (1977) and Jim Fixx's Second Book of Running (1980); of an apparent heart attack while jogging; in Hardwick, Vt...
...Italy during World War II, they found the economy in dire straits. The resilient Italians survived by selling black-market goods to one another. Americans will soon be playing a variation on the Italian ploy. They will survive by serving hamburgers and doughnuts to one another. Frank Holan Westminster, Vt...
...Immigration and Naturalization Service," he believes, will "become much more punitive toward refugees and sanctuary workers alike." What is even more disturbing about these bills, according to Fife and his colleagues, is that they do not make moral distinctions. Notes Brother Philip of Weston Priory in Weston, Vt., which shelters a Guatemalan family of seven: "When you call these people illegal aliens, you obscure the issues. As citizens of this country, we have a very clear responsibility for the condition that made them refugees...