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Hours after Hurricane Fifi slammed into Honduras, a crew met at a New Windsor, Md., warehouse and assembled 1,000 Ibs. of children's clothing, 3,000 blankets, and enough water-purification tablets and drugs to protect a good-sized city against epidemic. The goods were airlifted at once to Miami, then flown to Honduras...
Falstaff, Verdi's masterful comic opera based on Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is at the Boston Summer Opera Theater Friday and Saturday nights and next weekend as well. The summer opera is a good institution: for its patrons, it provides low prices and English-language librettos, and for its singers, it's a chance for those who haven't quite made it big yet to show their talents. How good this production will be probably depends on how good the Falstaff character is; it's a challenging role but the keystone of the opera. At St. Alphonsus...
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...centuries of American politics, there have been only three women Governors, and all three-Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas and Lurleen Wallace of Alabama-followed in their husbands' footsteps. Congresswoman Ella Grasso, 55, of Windsor Locks, Conn., is not accustomed to following in anyone's footsteps; her husband of 32 years is a retired school principal, and the toehold she won in the statehouse in Hartford was strictly her own achievement...
Died. Prince Henry William Frederick Albert, 74, Duke of Gloucester, third son of King George V of England; after a long illness; in Northamptonshire, England. Educated at Sandhurst, the Duke interrupted his military career to assume princely duties after his eldest brother Edward, Duke of Windsor, gave up his throne in 1936 to marry American Divorcee Wallis Simpson. For his brother King George VI, Gloucester undertook a spate of ceremonial chores and overseas good-will missions; he also indulged his passion for riding, fox hunting and polo. After serving as a high-ranking liaison officer in World...