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...think the candidates from thebeginning were very pronounced." said Chuck Crow,33, a supervisor for a Manchester truckingcompany. "I think it was clear-out race from thevery beginning...

Author: By Joe Mathews, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: N.H. Voters Frustrated by Candidates | 2/14/1992 | See Source »

...guide to sorting out the ambiguities posed by the Arrington affair. Back then, racist bombing attacks were so common that the city's best black neighborhood was nicknamed "Dynamite Hill." Parks, schools and buses were segregated, and most blacks were denied the vote. Today every legal vestige of Jim Crow has disappeared from the city, and Arrington sits in the mayor's office. The racial battleground is no longer black or white, but a murky gray, and Arrington's bizarre performance only adds to the confusion and frustration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Let Me Out of Here! | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

Almost alongside the Oklahoma, another torpedo hurtled through the air. After releasing it, recalled Lieut. Jinichi Goto, commander of the Japanese torpedo bombers, "I saw that I was even lower than the crow's nest of the great battleship. My observer reported a huge waterspout springing up . . . 'Atarimashita! ((It hit!))' he cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...York City's $10 billion-a-year construction industry and was in a position to know about the group's ties to food distribution, the garment trade and waste hauling. "Never in a million years did I dream that Sammy would turn," says ex-hit man Nicholas (the Crow) Caramandi, who is now a protected federal witness. "He and Gotti rose up together. They were very close. This is a shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organized Crime An Offer They Can't Refuse | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

Jean Richard, 79, a retired watchmaker from nearby Rayne ("Frog Capital of the World"), recalls an earlier time, when almost everybody in southwest Louisiana played an instrument. "My daddy could play harmonica, crow like a rooster and bark like a dog all at the same time." He shakes his head sadly. "That trait is gone today -- nobody practices that anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why The Good Times Still Roll | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

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