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...pilot making his first attempt at an aircraft-carrier landing crashed into the deck of the U.S.S. Lexington, killing himself, three crew members and a civilian...
Cigarette ads were banned from TV in 1971, but tobacco companies are finding new ways to get their names on the screen. Last week consumer-products giant Philip Morris, the world's largest cigarette maker, for the first time broadcast commercials designed to boost its corporate image. The ad, a tribute to the Bill of Rights, makes no overt reference to smoking. Even so, the Philip Morris name is almost synonymous with cigarettes, which bring in about 65% of the company's total profits...
...have lived out their usefulness to Si Newhouse, chairman of his family's publishing conglomerate. In 1987 William Shawn was suddenly removed as editor of the New Yorker after 35 years. Last year fashion doyenne Grace Mirabella was dethroned from the editorship at Vogue after 17 years; reportedly, she first learned the news of her dismissal from a friend who heard...
Many of the new migrants are young, middle-class families from Los Angeles and Orange County. According to University of Southern California geographer Thomas Jablonsky, their flight represents the first net "out migration" of this trendsetting group in the state's history. They are relatively skilled and prosperous, and mobile enough to escape Southern California's well- advertised problems of traffic, smog and crime. Many are so-called equity emigres who cash in on their California houses to acquire equivalent property near Puget Sound at literally half the price. Last month's Northern California earthquake, however, has had little impact...
Antigrowth instincts have stiffened, especially around Seattle, where the citizenry has been increasingly inclined to put environmental conservatism first. Last May, for example, voters overwhelmingly approved new restrictions limiting the height of future downtown skyscrapers to 450 ft. "The California rush is actually useful in crystallizing the debate over our future," says Lois Schwennesen, King County's planning and development manager. "It's helping us face some hard choices, about sewage, transit, road construction and the rest, and it's helping us understand that you can't have...