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...over the beach at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Orville's turn came three days later, Dec. 17, 1903, at 10:35 a.m. He took the clattering rig to an altitude of 10 ft. and traveled through the air for about 40 yds. before coming down hard enough to crack a skid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heads In Air, Feet on Ground WILBUR AND ORVILLE | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...idea came out of the mayor's campaign todeter the entry of crack from taking hold in theBoston area," said Neil Sullivan, director themayor's Public Policy Office...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Study Finds Anti-Drug Ads Ineffective | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

...Roommate Holden, by Ward Stradlater. Borrowing a page from Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," the author tries to retell Salinger's Catcher in the Rye from a different standpoint. Stradlater explains that the reason Holden thinks everybody was a phony was because he was addicted to crack and suffered from severe paranoia...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Turning 30 | 5/27/1987 | See Source »

...participating in the hot line scam. Three local telephone companies and 20 long-distance carriers, including AT&T, US Sprint and MCI, joined forces to form a group called the Communications Fraud Control Association, which now includes a number of other phone companies. The association's mission: to help crack down on the growing practice by urging tougher laws and stricter law enforcement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RIP-OFFS: Reach Out and Rob Someone | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...Loughgall, 30 miles from Belfast. Just before the device exploded, wrecking the building, masked terrorists leaped from a blue van and raked the post with gunfire. But the station was empty; tipped off in advance, the police had cleared out. Suddenly a team of the British army's crack Special Air Service sprang from hiding and opened fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Getting Tough With the I.R.A. | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

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