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...length of knotted plastic clothesline in the basement of her apartment building; she was raped. On April 3, Mrs. Lois Dant, 58, was bludgeoned, strangled with her own stocking, and raped in the living room of her first-floor apartment. On June 10, Mrs. Jeanette M. Messer, 60, a widow, was beaten, strangled with a blue and red Paisley necktie, and raped in a quiet park where she had walked her dog every morning for years...
...down in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. But the order seemed unchanged from last month's rallies: Defense Minister Lin Piao was ranked No. 2, Premier Chou En-lai No. 3. There was, however, one surprise: Madame Sun Yatsen, the widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic, who has been denounced by the Red Guards as not being revolutionary enough, was on the stand in a place of honor. Apparently Mao felt that the prestige of her famed husband was still of some patriotic usefulness to Red China...
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife has placed the whooping crane on its "Rare and Endangered" list and is studying ways of breeding it in captivity. Mrs. McNulty, a freelance writer and the widow of Novelist John McNulty (Third Avenue, New York), avoids polemics but not passion as she examines the history of human indifference and hostility that conspired for so long against the whooping crane. She adds suspense to the story, too, as she traces the efforts of conservationists to locate the big birds' nesting regions in the Canadian far north and provide them with wintering grounds...
...party in general. There were more reports of indiscriminate beatings of local party officials, and in one town the party leader was smeared with muck and dragged through the streets. Despite Chou's explicit warning, Red Guards also ransacked the Shanghai home of Madam Sun Yatsen, the widow of the man who founded the Chinese Republic in 1911. The Guards denounced her for living in luxury unbecoming to a citizen of Mao's China. On yet another front, the Guards ordered the disbanding of the 60 million-member Young Communist League. The League has apparently failed to show...
...some of the very best country restaurants in the U.S. are operated by people who began as amateurs and almost by accident. When the death of her husband left Bertha Hinshaw a mon eyless widow 37 years ago, she did the only thing she knew how to do. She put a sign in front of her house and started cooking. Now her 125-seat Chalet Suzanne Resort Inn is one of Central Florida's greatest attractions. Fly-in diners can land on an 1,800-ft. turf airstrip and her famous soups sell for 690 a can in markets...