Word: ariz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Station, the carrier's home port. On shore, a gentle drizzle ruined the coiffures of women who had long looked forward to the reunions. Shirley Genson of Centerville, Ala., lamented, "This is my wedding day, and he's stuck out there." Said Debbie Harris of Show Low, Ariz., about her husband, Petty Officer Kenneth Harris: "It's awful hard being able to see him, but not see him." Through the waiting crowd rippled a common joke: "The crew must have asked the captain to head for the nearest...
DIED. Larry ("Buster") Crabbe, 75, former swimming champion and 1930s film star best known as the original Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers; in Scottsdale, Ariz. After winning a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics, he moved to Hollywood, eventually calling himself "King of the Serials" for his intrepid science-fiction roles. Crabbe later became a fitness and exercise advocate, swimming a steady two miles a day well into...
...electronic Rolodexes with built-in cross-reference capabilities. Having stored his trivia on an AppleIIe, Baseball Card Collector Louis Musher, 13, of New York City can call up such arcana as the names of all Montreal Expo catchers who batted .250 or better in 1980. In Sun City, Ariz., Vinton Ostrander, 76, is using his Franklin Ace computer to record the genealogy of some 3,000 relatives and will soon have instant access to 300 years of family history. One New York City editor who is to be married in May has created a data base to map out chapel...
Fort Smith, Ariz...
...Diethrich, and many other surgeons, performing on-camera was nothing new. His operations had been videotaped for doctors and nurses for nearly a decade. The cardiologist agreed to a request from KAET-TV in Tempe, Ariz., to do a televised operation as part of a month-long health series on the public station. The two-hour segment, picked up by some 100 public TV stations in 33 states, had "a twofold purpose," said KAET Spokeswoman Kathy Banfield: "To alleviate the fears of those who face this surgery" and "to encourage others to give up smoking and other bad habits...