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...Ayatullah Khomeini, a family friend recalls the scene at the drowning of Khomeini's infant daughter in Qum some 35 years ago. Khomeini's wife was tearing her hair in despair. When the friend arrived, the bearded savant was praying quietly over the body of the youngest of his six children. "I looked into his face and could see no trace of disturbance," says the friend today. "I knew he loved this child very deeply. Yet he showed no emotion, no sorrow, no excitement." After a while Khomeini said quietly: "God gave me the child...
...West Germany. In friendlier political climes, Akii-bua is preparing for the '80 Moscow Olympics, in which he will compete again for Uganda. So happy was one of the world's greatest trackmen to be free of politics that he lined up his family, down to youngest daughter Denise, 14 months, for a joyous group portrait on the blocks...
Even if Stendahl and Rupp have similar perceptions of the Div School's goals, it may be difficult for the Div School to view Rupp as similar to his predecessor. Stendahl is 58 years old; Rupp, at 37, is the youngest Harvard dean. And Rupp acknowledges his deanship "may require some adjustment of perceptions." He adds, "Right down to the movers who moved us in, people tend to think that deans are venerable old men--if not institutions...
...Time Inc.'s editor in chief is Henry Grunwald, Viennese-born and TIME-nurtured. Grunwald began working for The Weekly Newsmagazine as a copy boy in 1944, while still an undergraduate at New York University. The following year he became a writer, advanced to senior editor -the youngest ever-at age 28 and to managing editor in 1968. After a nine-year tenure, during which the magazine changed considerably, he was appointed one of two corporate editors...
...picture in there was his driver's license, grinning, sun-tanned from water-skiing, so long ago. He flipped the plastic. Oldest son as high school graduate, long gone, ski-bumming in Colorado, a five-minute phone call six months ago was about all. The two girls and the youngest baby boy--all living with their mother across town, way across town...