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...Moscow, and the Planetary Society in Pasadena, Calif., a think tank founded in 1979 by astronomer Carl Sagan and others. The two groups had long been developing plans for a solar-sail mission but got the cash to make it happen only last year when Ann Druyan, Sagan's widow and head of the media company Cosmos Studios, and Joe Firmage, the founder of USWeb, threw their names and about $4 million behind the effort. "I had talked to people about solar sailing before," says Lou Friedman, former engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and director...
...Samara owners, distant relatives of the sister of the artist's widow, "just wanted to get rid of it," says another art historian who also saw the painting in Samara. For years, they had hidden it from bandits-at one point in a kgb safe, at another in a crate of potatoes. They were convinced that whoever kept the painting met with misfortune, and with good reason: the young man who brought the canvas to the bank disappeared for days afterward only to resurface in a battered, confused state, the victim of a shakedown by racketeers...
...Quinn asks colleagues whether Leah Rabin, widow of the slain Israeli Prime Minister, might help. Avner Azulay, Rich's point man in Israel, responds, "Not a bad idea. The problem is how do we contact her? She died last November...
DIED. EDDIE PARKER, 69, nimble, self-taught pool shark who earned the nickname "Fast Eddie" in high school and claimed to have inspired Walter Tevis' book and screenplay The Hustler (Tevis' widow disagrees); of an apparent heart attack; at the U.S. Classic Billiard Eight-Ball Showdown in South Padre Island, Texas. He was a money player but, he avowed, an honest one who never hustled...
DIED. DALE EVANS, 88, dulcet-voiced cowgirl, devoted humanitarian, author of more than 20 books and widow of Roy ("King of the Cowboys") Rogers; in Apple Valley, Calif. Evans' boss caught her singing while she worked--as a stenographer at a Dallas insurance company--and prodded her to appear on a company-sponsored radio program. Not long after, she was cast in her first of 28 films with Rogers, beginning a long reign as the radiant "Queen of the West." Despite her immense popularity, she was often outbilled by her husband's horse, Trigger, which co-starred in 90-plus...