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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America's most famous Alzheimer's victim, and on a good day he can still get off a satisfying one-liner. Reminded last month that his granddaughter Ashley, 13, had once said she would love him "even if Grandpa didn't know me," Ronald Reagan shot back, "What do they mean? I know who Ashley is." On a bad day, however, a former high White House official can stop by for a brief visit and leave convinced that his old boss could not quite place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAGAN'S LONG GOODBYE | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...Elohim City "Grandpa" Millar deplores the entire episode, saying it is another opportunity for the media to besmirch Christian Identity. The settlement has been declared off limits to the press. But speaking from the front seat of the Lincoln parked in the rain-drenched gravel of a country-store parking lot near the settlement, Millar says he would welcome Howe back. "It was not unusual for unstable people to seek us out," he says. "The Church of Jesus Christ exists for such people." And so, apparently, does Elohim City. --With reporting by Patrick E. Cole/Tulsa and Elaine Shannon/Washington

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE CITY ON A HILL | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...pair and built a facility on his property to house them. The scene-stealing siblings were in more than 15 Tarzan movies, and as a specialty, Westfall says, "Jiggs would always grin with his upper lip above his mouth.'' In retirement, Jiggs has become an artist--a simian Grandpa Moses--and sales of his paintings are to fund the Cheeta Project, a non-profit foundation that will aid other chimps and keep Jiggs on his daily diet of fruit, Purina Monkey Chow and the occasional Oreo as a treat. Tarzan's tree house was never like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 10, 1997 | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

Leyden took similar tactics to southern California schools, papering junior high campuses with hate material to provoke fighting between white and nonwhite kids. Days after a fight, he would ask white students, "Shouldn't there be a group for you?" Affectionately known as "Grandpa" because of his advanced age, Leyden led younger skinheads on recruiting drives, tossing White Aryan Resistance leaflets on doorsteps and giving racial comics to young teenagers on their way home from school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFESSIONS OF A SKINHEAD | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...whatever you do, don't forget to send Grandpa Bob a postcard.Crimson File PhotoTallships grace Boston's Harbor during the Fourth of July Celebration...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Boston Is Old, So You Should Play Tourist | 6/22/1996 | See Source »

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