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His tenacious descendants have pleaded - and pleaded - with the Government to expunge his conviction from the record. Grandson Dr. Richard Mudd, 73, of Michigan, determinedly carries on the family obsession. In 1971 Mudd presented Michigan's Senator Philip Hart with a 50-page petition documenting his grandfather's...
In many of South Viet Nam's young refugees, day-to-day contact with war has bred an obsession with death. Some children worriedly interpret wrinkles and white hair on visitors or grandparents as a sure sign that their end is imminent. After returning from a trip to South...
A shy, withdrawn Detroit teenager, Moriarty was hooked by a high school production of Arsenic and Old Lace. "My whole identity became 'an actor,' "he says."It was a 24-hour obsession."
Housewives in hair curlers knit sweaters at the wheels of then-station wagons in the predawn blackness of Miami. Young couples in Manhattan, armed with sandwiches and hot chocolate, invite friends along for an evening of gasoline shopping. Connecticut executives regale each other with lurid tales of mile-long queues...
It has been 21 years since Bonjour Tristesse established Schoolgirl Françoise Sagan as the enfant terrible of French letters. She is finishing up her ninth novel, which she describes as "not a love story. It's about an obsession, and based partly in the U.S." Sagan is...