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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last month in which a smuggler loaded with $15 million worth of stolen cocaine was killed in a parachute jump. Beyond that, there were suggestions of a disturbing recklessness. The plane's owner, David Lee Williams of Atlanta, disregarded a mechanic's warning that the fuel was contaminated. He flew the craft to the West Wind Sport Parachute Center, where it turned into a coffin for himself and the chutists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: The Skydivers' Last Plunge | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...couldn't not come--he drew you to him like a magnet," said Jim Levine, a 1967 Amherst graduate who flew in from New York for the service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Service For Bill Ward | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

...grand candlebras shone and the birthday banners flew above the hall, as the guests dined on chilled cucumber soup, beef and lobster. The evening's events included a flaming birthday cake, a performance by the Harvard Krokodiloes and a nostalgic slide presentation of Dudley's past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy Birthday, Dear Dudley . . . | 10/8/1985 | See Source »

...other hand, Penn got off five shots, one a follow-up scoop by Patti Vivial--who had her initial shot blocked by Crimson goalie Denise Katsias--which flew above Katsias' outstretched mit and into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn Tops Stickwomen, 1-0; Crimson Mark Falls to 0-4-1 | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...balances his harsh criticism of his subject's eccentricities with an admiring portrait of the young Welles as a brilliant innovator on stage and radio. But, the author notes, even then there was "the megalomania that would soon consume him." And he holds to his view that when Welles flew off to Rio to film the carnival without finishing the editing of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), when he flew off to Europe without finishing the editing of Macbeth (1948), when he wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on abandoned projects like Don Quixote, he feared that a completion would "have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Orson Wells | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

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