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DIED. PAUL (RED) ADAIR, 89, legendary oil-field fire fighter who put out an estimated 2,000 blazes around the world with his usual concoction of water and dynamite, including 119 fires in Kuwaiti wells torched by Iraq in 1991; in Houston. After World War II, the native Texan returned home from a two-year stint in the Army's bomb demolition unit to take a job with Myron Kinley, a pioneer of well-fire and blowout control. Adair later started his own business, and his exploits (an explosion in South Texas once propelled...
...DIED. PAUL "RED" ADAIR, 89, heroic oil-well firefighter immortalized by John Wayne in the 1968 movie The Hellfighters; in Houston, Texas. Adair began his career putting out oil-well fires during the Great Depression, and as his expertise grew, his name became virtually synonymous with the profession. At age 76, he and his Texas-based Red Adair Co. capped hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells left burning at the end of the Gulf War. Adair's exploits earned him a daredevil reputation, to which he once remarked: "A daredevil's reckless, and that ain't me. The devil's down...
...Adair T. Lummis of the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, one of Clergy Women's co-authors, says recent, less comprehensive studies suggest that there has been "very little" change since '98, and perhaps even regress, because of what some of her colleagues describe as male backlash. Moreover, female pastors continue to face the same family-juggling issues as their ambitious sisters in other fields, the barbs of conservatives who feel that the Bible abhors their preaching, and the misgivings of a different set of critics who fear that the clergy's feminization will lead to men's evaporation from...
...fairness, why should it be? He's a man in his 60s, entitled to a certain ambivalence about, say, Chairman Mao and his Little Red Book. Or, for that matter, movie madness and sexual triads. That standoffishness (or objectivity) intermittently marks The Dreamers, which is adapted by Gilbert Adair from his novel The Holy Innocents. But it also renders the film dispassionate, curiously lifeless, lacking the energy of either youthful commitment or a deeply engaged re-examination of the past. --By Richard Schickel
Does the word secret mean anything to TIME? You mentioned several times in this article that you got your information from a "secret CIA document" and intelligence reports. What ever happened to responsible journalism? Secret means it is neither my business nor yours! PHYLLIS ADAIR Irvine, Calif...