Word: baur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth is, the festival hasn't been about cherries in decades--something that locals tend to acknowledge only in hushed tones. Around here, it's almost sacrilegious to diss the festival. "Most people aren't really interested in learning about the cherry industry," concedes 50-year-old Eddie Baur (no, not that one), owner of a downtown liquor store. Instead "it's about the carnival, air shows and concerts," says Baur. Even this year's festival president, David Skibowski, admits that he doesn't care much for cherries. "I'm not a big fruit person," he says...
...errant missile is gaining a bit on the credibility scale. While the FBI has bluntly dismissed descriptions by several eyewitnesses who thought they saw a glowing object approach the craft just before the catastrophic explosion, it's a little harder to write off the testimony of Captain Chris Baur, an Air National Guard chopper pilot who witnessed the crash at close range and mounted the initial rescue effort. According to National Guard sources, B aur told his superiors that night that he thought he had seen a missile streaking toward the plane. The FBI insists that there is no proof...