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Even so, by Oct. 27 Khrushchev was not giving any sign of backing down. We met all day with the President, split between those who believed we should attack and those who thought we should negotiate. The Joint Chiefs pushed for an invasion. Khrushchev had sent a hard-line offer that morning. But Kennedy decided simply to take the Soviet leader up on his offer of the previous night, proposing to withdraw the missiles if the U.S. promised not to invade Cuba. Khrushchev accepted on Sunday. He was so worried that war would break out in the six hours...
...born and raised just a few miles from Elizabeth Smart. A so-so student at Skyline High School, he lost himself in hobbies like model rocketry before launching himself into drugs and alcohol. At 19 he married and had two kids with a woman named Karen, but the two split up. Soon afterward, he became active in the Mormon church. There he met Debbie, whom he married in 1980. According to Debbie, the David Mitchell she fell in love with was a gentle, deeply devout man. But she says he soon became controlling; he banned bright colors from her wardrobe...
Almost immediately after the two split, Mitchell met Barzee at a church function and moved in with her and her three children. In this third family circle, Mitchell's behavior grew increasingly bizarre. He spoke often of visitations by angels and cornered his stepchildren with impromptu sermons. Last week in a series of television interviews, Barzee's daughter Louree Gaylor alleged that Mitchell was "always hugging me the wrong way." Once Gaylor moved out, the couple claimed to have received a divine direction to sell off all their belongings. At one point, Mitchell and Barzee were both excommunicated...
Charles Hulse, an Arkansas native and a Galle real estate agent, for years split his time between Paris and the Greek isle of Hydra before settling in a tastefully restored Galle house with interiors fit for Architectural Digest. Hulse notes that the cost of restoring a fort house usually runs more than half the purchase price...
Junior winger Lauren McAuliffe doubled the lead right off the subsequent faceoff. She brought the puck in on the left side on a two-on-one with sophomore winger Nicole Corriero. McAuliffe delayed for a split second, faking the pass. As Minnesota goaltender Judy Horak turned her attention to Corriero, McAuliffe scored with a beautiful shot just over Horak’s right shoulder. The two goals demoralized the Gophers...