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Rebecca Scruton, 28, a Meriden, Conn., mother of two young children, had become a widow in December, when her husband Dale, 30, died of cancer. She was on Flight 007 only because she had a passport problem when she went to board an earlier flight; her children were not with her. There were 269 such stories of personal poignancy...
...hour-long documentary shows Clark's chest being cut open, the removal of his heart and the implanting of the artificial organ. Says Una Loy Clark, Barney's widow: "I feel that it is really not in the best of taste to show these things. It smacks of sensationalism." She wept openly at seeing what she called her "loved one's body being exposed and cut." Though they would like to have the film aired, officials of the University of Utah, KUED and the hospital all say they will abide by Mrs. Clark's wishes. Others...
...agenda for the future. King's long-stilled eloquence was missing, of course, but it was not far from anyone's mind. "I can assure you that Martin Luther King Jr. will be marching with us and that he will still be leading the parade," said his widow Coretta Scott King. "We still have a dream...
...Jiang Qing, Mao's widow and radical leader of the now discredited Gang of Four: She is a very, very evil woman. She is so evil that any evil thing you say about her is not evil enough...
...year is 1935, the place New York City. A widow named Mary Stephens answers a personal ad in the Police Gazette and, in the time it now takes for a letter to be mailed crosstown, gets a new husband. John James settles down in her basement apartment and then, after a few weeks, disappears with Junie, the younger of Mary's two daughters. The surviving daughter, Alice, 13, grasps instinctively what Detective Jim Hackett of the department of missing persons grimly suspects: the little girl is dead, a month shy of her tenth birthday, and a madman...