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Welsh-born Sarah Thomas is a middle-aged widow working in Cambridge, England. Threatened by breast cancer, she seeks a "last" holiday in Ulster with two close Catholic friends, Caroline and Colum Moore, and a former lover, a Protestant left-wing journalist named James McNeil...
...bottle wiper-were followed by a Ford Foundation grant to continue his research. Under the pen name Joseph Novak, Kosinski published two studies of Communist political theory: The Future Is Ours, Comrade (1960) and No Third Path (1962). In 1962 he married Mary Hayward Weir, the 40-year-old widow of the founder of the National Steel Corp., and Kosinski's life changed again. He began to move in the world of the influential rich, some shadows of which fall on the pages of Being There. His wife died in 1968 after a long illness...
After a short service, two Gold Star mothers, a widow, and three of the veterans' representatives attempted to enter the cemetery to lay wreathes on their friends' and relatives' graves, but were told that groups of a political persuasion were not allowed to use the grounds. Fort Meyers spokesmen said later that the Army Technical Manual prohibits such action...
...committee, which includes such prominent Americans as Dr. Edward Teller, inventor of the hydrogen bomb, and Clare Boothe Luce, widow of the publishing magnate, is convinced that Cuba was a launching pad for the student insurrections and black rebellions which plagued the U. S. during...
...Court ruled that a Cambridge widow who owns a five-apartment building could ask a rent increase of her tenants since they were under lease. The decision stated that since the contract was made before rent control, it superceded the roll back provision...