Word: woman
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Boston police had been investigating 95 suspicious fires that occurred between 1973 and 1976, including one that led last year to a Pulitzer-prizewinning photograph of a woman and little girl plummeting from a collapsed fire escape (the woman died, but the child survived). Last week the police came up with enough evidence to bring arson indictments on 35 of the fires that destroyed property worth $6 million and killed three people. Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti denounced the torch ring as "a conspiracy to burn down Suffolk County for profit." Added Stephen Delinsky, head of the state criminal...
...office equipment is nothing new in Manhattan, but the latest rip-off story tears at the heart strings. Two well-dressed men walked into one of the fancier nursing homes on the Upper East Side during visiting hours and were soon afterward seen solicitously wheeling a 90-year-old woman out of the building, presumably for an afternoon airing. The bewildered lady was found sitting in her wheelchair, abandoned at a street corner, some time later. Her ostensibly helpful visitors had vanished-and so too had the electric typewriter they had apparently hidden under a blanket...
...Please wait. Will come with the number." Minutes later: "Frankfurt, here is Oscar X Ray. Three terrorists killed, one badly wounded." Mahmud and two others had been killed outright; the fourth, a woman, suffered a thigh wound and was taken to a Mogadishu hospital. One commando, one stewardess and four passengers were slightly injured. Except for the murdered Captain Schumann, all the hostages survived...
DIED. Marie-Térèse Walter, 68, Pablo Picasso's mistress from 1927 to 1942 and mother of his daughter Maïa; by her own hand (hanging); in Antibes, France. Described by Art Critic John Berger as "sexually the most important" woman in Picasso's life, she appeared in hundreds of his paintings and drawings...
...There would be a wide spectrum of alumni opinion" if a woman became president, Clapp said yesterday. He added he would be "willing to accept Gray...