Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the downside of racing, but obviously I'm guilty of getting him involved. 'Guilty' may not be the right word. But it's the only one I can think of. In my whole life, I've let myself get really close to just three drivers. They're all dead." One was another of the Indy rookies of 1965, Billy Foster, killed two years later in a stock car. "But on the upside, my son now knows what I do, or he's starting to. All along he's been a passenger on this road. Now he's a driver...
...cover story was written by Contributor John Skow, a veteran show business and celebrity chronicler whose daughter Lizie, 18, herself a fledgling pop singer, helped him with his American Scene piece last February on the Grateful Dead. Says Skow, 53: "I am now one of the world's oldest Dead Heads." His TIME cover subjects include Model Cheryl Tiegs, Singer Linda Ronstadt and Actresses Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep. Skow dined with Madonna and her band at Chez Helene in New Orleans and discovered "that we both liked Judy Holliday and soft-shell crabs...
...including 14 people who perished in blasts that ripped through two trains. One was the Himachal Express, bound from New Delhi for points north. It was pulling into the station at Meerut, 37 miles northeast of the capital, when a blast ripped through one of its coaches, leaving seven dead and eight injured. At a bus stop in Haryana, a man exploded a hand grenade strapped to his body, killing himself and two bystanders. By week's end the death toll stood at 79--42 in New Delhi alone--with more than a hundred reported injured. Many of the dead...
...fire simply erupted at the back of the stand and seemed to spread everywhere inside seconds," Yorath said. "We were all panic- stricken and had no idea what to do." The fire started under the grandstand floorboards, and authorities are investigating the possibility of arson. The estimated toll: 40 dead, 200 injured. Said a police spokesman: "As far as we know it is the worst fire ever in a British football stadium...
This spring has been the season of the past, however. It is the anniversary of almost everything. Americans have been pitched back into unstable regions of memory, back into Viet Nam and wartime Europe. Sometimes the experience has been disconcerting. The past only looks dead. Ronald Reagan, quintessential American and oldest President, did not seem entirely to grasp that. He displayed a curious insensitivity about the past, as if he did not know how important it is, or how dangerous it can be. As if he did not know that the past has monsters in it. His eyes accustomed...