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Theda Skocpol, a graduate student in Sociology, and Wesley E. Profit '69, a tutor in Afro-American Studies, also committed their departments to the sick-ward...
...this tragicomedy of errors. Over sumptuous dinner, Lenny tries to break the news of his decision to divorce her. When he finally makes it clear, Lila sobbingly responds in character: "Lenny... I think I have to throw up." She finally collapses into his arms, and he tries to ward off the poignancy of the moment with empty consolations: "When two people share a common tragedy..." But it defeats him; at the end of the scene, Lila cries on with the nobility of the victim, as he falls into guilty silence...
That was the start of a harrowing, 20-hour ordeal for Knox, one of the U.S.'s few black ambassadors, and his second in command, Ward Christensen, who was held when he called at the residence later. The kidnapers demanded the release of 31 political prisoners held in the infamous Dessalines barracks. They picked Knox as hostage because, as he explained later, "I had a certain influence here...
...Died. Clara Ward, 48, petite, thunder-voiced leader of the Ward Gospel Singers; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. A Philadelphia Baptist who began singing solos in black churches at the age of five, Ward formed her own group while still a teenager. They added choreography to their act and nightclub patrons to their audience, and became one of the most successful gospel groups of the '50s and '60s. To purists who criticized their cabaret appearances-and their lavender limousine-Ward responded: "We're just traveling the highways and hedges for the Lord." -Died. LA. ("Al") Horowitz...
...worth traversing the particularly bad roads or risking the frequently canceled air trip. Once there, tourists can take a two-hour horseback ride up La Ferriere mountain to visit the ruins of the Citadelle, a huge stone fortress built by one of Haiti's liberators, Henri Christophe, to ward off an invasion that never came...