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Sources also said this week that Leonard was interviewed early this summer by a search committee seeking a successor to Roy Wilkins, current executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). NAACP representatives could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...times in the past five years, began filing immediately for this week's twelve-page section about Mao's death and China's future. (It is the fifth and presumably last time that Mao has appeared on our cover since 1949.) Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan, who covered revolutionary China for LIFE, and Correspondent David Aikman also added the perspective of recent visits to China in their reporting. Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey interviewed Henry Kissinger on Mao. We also present an exclusive contribution from a newsman who died in 1972 but knew Mao better than...
...year-old gulped down 19 pickled onions in two minutes. They were all contestants in Cosmorama, a Screwball Olympics held in Lingfield, England, where the equivalent of a gold was winning an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. The show's Bruce Jenner was Tory Roy Hatter, 25, vice chairman of the Young Conservatives and new holder of the world record for nonstop political speeches-29 hr. 12 min. 30 sec. of peroration on codfishing, women's rights and other matters. "Like most politicians," gasped Hatter after his champion performance, "I like to get my name...
...escape from the thick, relentlessly overstuffed world of Second Empire Paris into an imagery of free movement and rhythmic arabesque. The art nouveau line-whiplike, airy, eddying back on itself-was common to high art as well. A good example is Gauguin's portrait of the painter Roy, 1889, with its serpentine forms of background and hair (see color page...
...evacuated when a brush fire spread to the hospital's roof. More than 100 miles to the east in Surrey, a mother and her four children were nearly burned to death when flames from a roadside grass fire engulfed their car. "Wales is a tinderbox," says Roy Orringe, deputy fire chief for Monmouthshire County. "My boys are stretched to the limit. Our calls have increased tenfold, and some work 72 hours without a break...