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Robert L. Wolff '36, Coolidge Professor of History and lecturer in History 1270, "The Byzantine Empire," and History 1570, "The Ottoman Empire and the Middle East since the Thirteenth Century," died Tuesday night of an apparent heart attack. He was 64 years...
Wallace MacCaffrey, Higginson Professor of History and current chairman of the History Department, announced the news of Wolff's death to students in the History 1270 class yesterday morning. Wolff had been hospitalized a month ago for pneumonia, but he told his class recently that his doctor had given him a clean bill of health, only warning him not to exert himself...
...first showing on pay TV. There was less contention over other parts of the package: a 32.5% increase over three years in the minimum pay for actors, which would rise from the present $225 a day to $298, and various improvements in fringe benefits. Said Union Negotiator Sanford Wolff: "I think that the economic aspects of the deal are sufficient and that the membership will and should approve the contract...
...Suez Canal, the Allies' strategic lifeline to the Middle East and Asia. Though outnumbered and outgunned by General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, the German commander consistently outmaneuvers the Brits, even to the point of seizing the key bastion of Tobruk. For Rommel has a secret weapon: Alex Wolff, a.k.a. Achmed Rahmha, German-born, Berlin-trained spy, who early in life had been adopted by an Arab stepfather...
...English officer charged with tracking down Wolff is Major William Vandam, a non-U widower in military intelligence. Vandam's strategy starts with a well-baited hooker. Her name is Elene Fontana (nee Abigail Asnani), a 23-year-old Jewish courtesan who-after the characteristic Follett sexual intermezzos-rises quickly to become the star of the Wolff hunt. One of Vandam's problems is his toffee-nosed superior, Lieut. Colonel Reggie Bogge, who spends most of his time polishing a precious cricket ball and refusing to accept his subordinate's theory of the spy's existence...