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...There are two people whom I think utterly unworthy to appear in the columns or on the cover of TIME. Fatty Arbuckle especially disgusting and William Randolph Hearst a poor creature to have the use of so much wealth for specially wrong purposes...
...beginning of 2004, the government last week launched a $117 million fund to fight avian flu over the next three years, with an 800,000-strong team of volunteers. Experts say that kind of initiative is needed from every country. "We live in a highly integrated world," says Dr. William Aldis, head of the WHO's Bangkok office. "The worst country in the world as far as surveillance and control methods sets the level of risk for all of us." That means what happens while Vietnam celebrates the Year of the Rooster could have implications for everyone...
...DIED. WILLIAM BOOTLE, 102, progressive Southern judge who in 1961 ordered the integration of the University of Georgia; in Macon, Ga. In ruling that two black students who had been denied admission--one of them future TV journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault--were "fully qualified," he set in motion a chain of decisions that resulted in the school's integration within a week. "Right is right," Bootle said...
Other Pentagon units also field secret agents. Code Names, a new book written by defense analyst William Arkin, identifies more than 100 secret units, intelligence programs and communications networks that the Pentagon has set up to fight terrorists. Many have exotic designations like Aztec Silence and Island Sun. "When you put together all these code names, it shows there's something going on out there and it's complex," says Arkin...
...Thousand Oaks, California. She started out as a chorus member in musicals and played opposite stars ranging from Bob Hope (The Princess and the Pirate) to James Cagney (White Heat). Her looks overshadowed her acting, but she won critical acclaim as Dana Andrews' cheating wife in William Wyler's Oscar-winning World War II drama, The Best Years of Our Lives...