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DIED. JOHNNY UNITAS, 69, Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Baltimore Colts to a sudden-death victory over the New York Giants in the 1958 NFL championship game, still regarded by many as the greatest football game ever played; of a heart attack; in suburban Baltimore. Unitas broke passing records at the University of Louisville but was deemed too small by his hometown Pittsburgh Steelers, who cut him in 1955. The Colts found him playing for $6 a game in a semipro league and signed him to be their third-stringer. Two years later, his precise passes and menacing...
DIED. CLIFF GORMAN, 65, explosive television, screen and stage actor who won a Tony for his bitterly funny portrayal of the stand-up comic Lenny Bruce in Broadway's Lenny (1971); of leukemia; in New York City. He first gained fame for his flamboyantly gay performance in the 1968 play The Boys in the Band...
...pipeline." In fact, the biggest impact today won't be on a superpower, but on Azerbaijan, which hopes to triple its production to a million barrels a day when the pipeline opens in 2005. THE BOURSE Not So Fabulous, Darling Retailer Harvey Nichols - Harvey Nicks of sitcom Absolutely Fabulous fame - hasn't amused investors lately. So Dickson Poon, who floated 49.9% of the company at $4.20 a share in 1991, is taking it back for $3.87 Chocolate War Truce Activists in Pennsylvania pulled off a surprise coup as the Hershey Trust gave in to local opposition and stopped the sale...
Mitt Romney’s handsome appearance, Olympic fame and seemingly bottomless warchest—fueled by strong fundraising and the candidate’s considerable personal fortune—will present significant hurdles to O’Brien come November...
...Outdoor Channel starts in a garage--this one at the Post Falls, Idaho, home of George and Wilma Massie. Avid weekend gold panners, the Massies launched a for-profit gold-prospecting club in 1968. They moved their business in 1976 to California, where George won a little fame four years later when he found a million-dollar pocket of nuggets in the Mother Lode area. In the late 1980s their son Tom, now 37, began filming George's gold-hunting expeditions and lectures--footage that the Massies turned into an infomercial called The Gold Prospecting Show. "It kinda just evolved...