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...want to say we are very, very sorry I for what has happened," Mayor Raymond Flynn told the quiet widow, "and this is a small way of the city meeting its legal and moral obligation." In the tiny kitchen of her home in Boston's Roxbury ghetto, Patricia Bowden accepted the check for $843,498.37. Thus, in quite a different way from Miami, ended a case of police use of deadly force...
DIED. Eleanor Gehrig, 79, widow of New York Yankee Star Lou Gehrig; in New York City. A high-spirited Chicago socialite, Eleanor Twitchell met the baseball slugger at Chicago's Comiskey Park and married him in 1933. Their life together, dramatized in the 1942 movie The Pride of the Yankees and the 1977 TV film A Love Affair, ended after eight years, with his death at 37 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
...years ago Harvard selected Professor of Greek Emeritus John H. Finley '25, after Jihan Sadat, widow of the slain Egyptian leader, said she could not make...
...black cloth, came slowly into view, resting atop a gun carriage drawn by an olive-green military scout vehicle. Walking immediately behind were the members of Andropov's family: his son Igor and his daughter Irina, who was wearing a stylish red fox coat. Andropov's widow Tatyana, whose existence was not publicly known before Andropov's death, was too grief-stricken to join in the procession. The Politburo leaders, almost indistinguishable from one another in their fur hats and look-alike overcoats with red armbands, led the last group of official mourners...
...bony and drawn, his nose almost beaklike. His long ordeal seemed reflected on the faces of his wife, his son Igor and his daughter Irina, who sat near the flower-bedecked bier. While an orchestra played Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony in the background, Chernenko went up to Andropov's widow, kissed her and touched her gently on the shoulder. When Ustinov embraced the late Soviet leader's son, Igor broke into sobs. As he covered his face with his hand, other Politburo members reached over to touch his arm. A Westerner who joined thousands of mourners later...