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...retired Bolivian general who witnessed the secret burial of Marxist revolutionary and '60s icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara revealed for the first time where the guerrilla leader is buried. General Mario Vargas Salinas told a journalist that Guevara's body was interred by bulldozer, along with those of five other executed guerrillas, under an airstrip at Vallegrande, a Bolivian mountain town 150 miles southwest of Santa Cruz, shortly after Guevara's summary execution by firing squad on Oct. 9, 1967. His final words, according to the general: "Shoot, coward! You are going to kill...
This summer, Microsoft played chicken with the Justice Department when it announced plans to incorporate a link between its proprietary network system and the much-touted (and honestly, inferior-to-Macintosh) Windows 95. This link took the form of a ubiquitous icon on the desktop, which would encourage users of Windows 95 to gain immediate and easy access to the Microsoft Network (MSN). Since MSN was new to the internet provider market, it would be at a decided advantage in gaining new subscribers. More than 80 percent of the world's computers run Microsoft Windows and almost all of them...
...Sports Illustrated article upon Mantle's death, the writer postulated that Mantle was an icon precisely because he led the stuff of boyhood dreams for his whole life. He could drink all night and then go out and-play center field and hit a home run for the Yankees...
Stallman is a difficult person not to watch. With his long hair, beard and his disheveled '60s appearance, Stallman--known affectionately as "rms" by his followers--is not so much a computer visionary as a cultural icon for computer enthusiasts worldwide...
...Smith produced a brand-new fusion of poetry and rock 'n' roll. Now, twenty years later, she's an icon reemerging as a performer. Her reappearance on the scene creates, in Smith's own words, "a sea of possibilities...