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James Warren Jones, by contrast, was something of a weirdo. As a boy in the casket-making town of Lynn, Ind., he used to conduct elaborate funeral services for dead pets. Later, as a struggling preacher, he went from door to door, in bow tie and tweed jacket, selling imported monkeys. After briefly fleeing to South America (a shelter, he believed, from an imminent nuclear holocaust), the man who regarded himself as a reincarnation of Lenin settled in Northern California and opened some convalescent homes. Then, one humid day in the jungles of Guyana, he ordered his followers to drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Weirdos and Eccentrics | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...prosperity of the mid-'80s has of course helped stimulate both new construction and renovation, particularly in those cities blessed with high employment and booming industry. And some of the new downtown buildings are impressive. On the other hand, many cities have not revived. Detroit is still comatose, Gary, Ind., is not much healthier, and development in Oakland is lagging. Even in cities where renovation is rampant, gentrification has caused disgruntlement. Inhabitants of South Boston and East Los Angeles are not quite as excited as they might be about the exposed-brick, freshly baked, Benettonian fabulousness across town in Quincy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Spiffing Up The Urban Heritage | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...Gary, Ind., Democrat Thomas Barnes, who ousted veteran Mayor Richard Hatcher in a Democratic primary, won election easily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goode Leads in Philadelphia; Wilkinson Elected Gov. in Ky. | 11/4/1987 | See Source »

...career marks, the Crown Point, Ind., native has an outside chance to tie the Harvard record for most touchdown in a career. Yohe would need to average 3 TD passes per game for the last three games of the season to tie Larry Brown's 1977-78 mark of 23 TD strikes...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: No Pain, Big Gain | 11/3/1987 | See Source »

With 1387 yards passing, Yohe needs just 188 yards to break Larry Brown's 1978 season mark of 1575 As for most completions in a season, the Crown Point, Ind. native can surpass Jim Stoeckel's 1973 record of 112 completions if he completes just 20 more passes...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: It's the Second Time Around | 10/27/1987 | See Source »

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