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Finally, I burst out of the hodge-podge of bricked up warehouses and auto-body shops onto a street that promised homes. Eager to escape death in the shadow of a "Lube Job $29.99" sign, I dived down the road. A quick left and I was deep in a sea of California ranch houses...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Magical Mystery Tour | 12/13/1986 | See Source »

Explaining the plane's navigational system in great detail, Hersch shows how the pilot could have drifted over Soviet territory accidentally if only a few small mistakes happened at the wrong times. Flying at night on auto-pilot, the plane was lost mostly because of the crew's laziness and trust in their equipment. Probably confused by the jet's similarity to U.S. spy planes, the Siberian commander decided to play it safe and bring down the unknown plane...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: Counter Intelligence | 12/10/1986 | See Source »

Aside from owning Pat's Tow, Bonnel and Tauro are directors of Pat's Auto Body of Somerville. It is in their relationship with the latter corporation that they are under investigation...

Author: By Michelle D. Tanenbaum, | Title: Pat's Tow Not Booted By City | 12/9/1986 | See Source »

...addition, Middlesex Auto Leasing, which Tauro directs, is under indictment in the same case...

Author: By Michelle D. Tanenbaum, | Title: Pat's Tow Not Booted By City | 12/9/1986 | See Source »

...Japanese auto industry, which employs 10% of the country's work force and generates more than 20% of its exports, has driven into a similarly rough patch. For the fiscal year that ended in June, Toyota Motor, the country's largest car manufacturer, saw its profits fall 17%, to $1.6 billion. That marked Toyota's first decline in four years. For the six months that ended in September, Nissan Motor suffered a $122 million operating loss, its first since 1951. As a result, the company reassigned 2,500 employees to Nissan sales subsidiaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sun Also Sets | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

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