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...Farris, 21, one of three children of a Chicago Transit Authority superintendent, hoped to specialize in pediatric nursing, was engaged to be married next spring to the brother of another nurse, Mary Ann Jordan, 20. Daughter of a Chicago municipal engineer, Mary Ann lived at home - but, on the fatal night last week, had been discussing Suzanne's wedding plans with her and had sneaked into the residence to spend the night with her future sister...
Neither Right nor Left. Some observers feel that as a cartoonist, Scarfe exhibits an almost fatal flaw: they argue that he lacks moral discrimination. "A great talent," says Punch Editor Bernard Hollowood, "but he's too much concerned with nostrils, nipples and navels." Scarfe could reply that his critics are too cocksure of their own politics and resent his lack of dogma. "I try to avoid any political bias in my cartoons," says Scarfe, who does indeed heap abuse on every shade of opinion. "I'm neither for the right nor for the left. I simply must deride...
Frustrated. BEA, which will be 20 years old next month, saturates Britain and Europe with its routes, and reaches as far east as Helsinki, Moscow and Cairo. It has made a profit every year but two in the past ten. Its safety record is excellent-six fatal air crashes in two decades, only two of them since 1960-and its pilots are the very model of sturdy British reliability. BEA's troubles are not in the air but on the ground. The line seems unable to service its planes or passengers...
...true that the mind can conceive unending webworks of intrigue, so it is that the Kennedy assassination will forever evoke suspicions, claims, counterclaims and new theories. He was shot with one bullet-no, two. He was killed by one man-no, two, or maybe three. The fatal bullet entered his neck-no, his back. Lee Harvey Oswald was a Communist-no, a right-winger. Kennedy ordered his own assassination-no, Lyndon Johnson...
...condition of Bill Stempson and Dick Howe is uncertain now, but Jim Baker will not figure in the scoring at all. And against a solid squad like the Huskies, just the loss of Baker could be fatal...