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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life." Perhaps only his family really understood how deeply his bailout from a burning Avenger torpedo bomber in World War II had shaped him. He was only three months beyond his teens when ground fire hit his plane as he thundered in with four 500-lb. bombs to drop on a radio tower and facilities on Chichi Jima, a volcanic island held by the Japanese. He followed the book, completed his drop and then told his two crewmen, Ted White and Jack Delaney, to bail out. He turned the plane to lessen wind on their hatch, looked for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSH'S FINAL SALUTE | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...cult came to national attention after two dozen people from the small town of Waldport, Oregon, dropped everything to follow Bo and Peep. A 1975 TIME article described Applewhite as having a "rare ability to impress audiences with the urgency and truth of his message." (Such was Bo and Peep's appeal that NBC aired a series pilot called The Mysterious Two--originally titled Follow Me If You Dare--about an extraterrestrial couple.) But Bo and Peep's disciples were not all sheep. One group of discontented followers rejected the cult when a promised space visit never materialized. To stem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMPRISONED BY HIS OWN PASSIONS: Marshall Herff Applewhite | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...could look at the Crimson's transition game, which has ironically stayed at the same mediocre level all year. Yesterday Harvard had 26 turnovers, most of them coming in the transition, when someone would either drop a pass, throw an errant pass or just accidentally drop the ball out of her stick...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: No Firepower | 4/5/1997 | See Source »

...drop is not significant," she said. "It's simply a report of the official activities. It does not purport to be a thorough reflection of all incidents of this nature that occur...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: Sexual Harassment Complaints Decline | 4/5/1997 | See Source »

...YORK: For three days of the Easter weekend, the stock market gauge had been frozen at 140 below. No sooner did the markets reopen Monday than traders lopped another 157.11 points from the Dow, for the sixth-largest drop in stock market history and the heaviest two-day loss since the Crash of 87. And yet . . . the market is nearly three times as high as it was then, and even the bracing plunges of the last two trading days comprised only a 4.3 percent drop in values, where the 508-point drop of October 19,1987 represented a 22.6 percent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: There They Go Again | 4/1/1997 | See Source »

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