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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frankfurt's financial district in his armored, chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz 500SE, escorted by two other automobiles with four bodyguards. The car had traveled 550 yds. along a tree-lined street when a tremendous explosion hurled it into the air, reducing it to a charred, smoking hulk. Herrhausen died instantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Target for the Red Army Faction | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...over to save one of us. Julia. They left me and my male ego (now in the negative regions) to "pull the canoe over to the side." Unfortunately the canoe weighed on the order of 200 pounds and was filled with another 500 pounds of water. Only the Incredible Hulk could have pulled that canoe to the side against the current...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Row, Row, Row Your Boat | 8/1/1989 | See Source »

...wanted to yell bravely to the two guys, "Who do you think I am, the Incredible Hulk?" Instead, I said, "Help...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Row, Row, Row Your Boat | 8/1/1989 | See Source »

...Phoenix hotel, a gaggle of aging boxing groupies watch the hulk as he works out. Foreman is like the dynamo of old, steadily pounding home sledgehammer blows. Five rounds later and barely sweating, he halts to regale the faithful. "I should be carrying a cane," he jests. "My training camp is Baskin-Robbins. But if Tyson wins, it's only Lamborghinis and big houses for himself. Means nothing. If I win, every man over 40 can grab his Geritol and have a toast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston, Texas A Slugger and A Dream | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

Last week the Bismarck's hulk was discovered some 600 miles west of the Brittany port of Brest by Robert Ballard, the undersea explorer who in 1986 located the wreck of the passenger liner Titanic. As in the search for the Titanic, Ballard, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, used the unmanned submersible Argo in his Bismarck quest. According to Ballard, the battleship, which lies 15,000 ft. below the surface, is intact, upright and "in an excellent state of preservation" -- a remarkable fact considering that more than 300 shells and torpedoes were fired into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas: A Marker on a Chilly Grave | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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