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...sought to free China from the rigid constraints Maoism had imposed on industrial and technological development and on the modernization of the military. The gradual elimination of diehard Maoists from the party, government and military bureaucracies, and the conviction last November on treason charges of Mao's widow Jiang Qing, the leader of the "Gang of Four," greatly aided Deng...
...this month, the police called Horwitz's widow. They had found the car, the very same 1969 Buick Electra that had disappeared eleven years earlier. The auto is in mint condition, from the paint job to the power gewgaws. Says Sergeant Richard Nazzaro, who with his partner found the car: "What caught our eye was that it was so sharp looking." Their eyes also caught an improper license plate; the driver was stopped and charged with possession of a stolen vehicle. Sylvia Horwitz is shaken by the recovery. "It was eerie," she says. At least...
...ruling in Michigan, to sexual intercourse. Domenico Signorelli, 37, was engaged in the latter one spring night in Birmingham, England, when he was overcome by carbon monoxide from a space heater. He died ten days later; his companion, whom he had met on the job, recovered. Signorelli's widow collected $170,000 in life insurance, and there the matter might have ended had her husband committed his indiscretion back home. But since he had been sent abroad by his new employer to get acquainted with the firm's technology, she argued, the death was work-related and should...
...Lynne have brought an informed anarchy to Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical settings for T.S. Eliot's exercise in whimsy and social satire, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. When it appeared in 1939, Practical Cats comprised 14 poems; Valerie Eliot, the poet's widow, discovered others, which have been incorporated into the production, and notes that suggested a structure and a setting. John Napier, the show's designer, has transformed the New London Theater into a giant playground for cats, cluttered with trash cans, an auto carcass, bicycles and tires...
...Rochester earlier this month, he left his two-month-old son behind in Arcadia, Calif., and there is a good chance he will never see him again. Noyes and his wife Bjorna, 28, unable to produce children, had had his sperm injected into Nisa Bhimani, 29, a California widow and mother of three. But during her pregnancy, Bhimani decided she wanted to keep the child. Noyes sued for custody. Then, just before the trial, he withdrew his suit, partly to avoid publicly divulging his wife's transsexuality-which came out, in court documents. That tidbit has since been publicized...