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Luigi-Gino Fasulo had little in common with Mohamed Atta. An affable Italian native who ran an air-taxi business from the lakeside Swiss town of Locarno, Fasulo lived light-years from the bitterness of anti-Western Islamic fundamentalism that fueled the Sept. 11 attacks. But for a long, breathless moment last week after the 67-year-old pilot crashed a small plane into Milan's tallest skyscraper, the world couldn't help thinking back to the indelible images of the World Trade Center's tragic demise orchestrated by the Egyptian-born Atta. As investigators try to figure out what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Moment Of Terror | 4/21/2002 | See Source »

DIED. PATRICIA HIGHSMITH, 74, author of dark, psychological thrillers that attracted a cult following; in Locarno, Switzerland. Born in Texas and educated in New York City, she went to Europe to lead a reclusive life after the success in 1950 of her first novel, Strangers on the Train, which Alfred Hitchcock made into a movie. Highsmith's most famous character was Tom Ripley, an opportunistic and amoral gentleman-murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 13, 1995 | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

DIED. PATRICIA HIGHSMITH, 74, author of dark and psychological thrillers that attracted a cult following; in Locarno, Switzerland. Born in Texas and educated in New York City, she went to Europe to lead a reclusive life after the success in 1950 of her first novel, Strangers on the Train, which Alfred Hitchcock made into a movie. Highsmith's most famous character was Tom Ripley, an opportunistic and amoral gentleman-murderer. DIED. DONALD PLEASENCE, 75, chameleon-like British character actor who could be meek or malevolent in his stage and screen roles; in St.-Paul-de-Vence, France. Pleasence first gained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 13, 1995 | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...Savant:"The Locarno Pact ((correct)), signed by more countries than you named. But I don't know who officiated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles Van Doren vs. the 1994 Quiz Show Dream Team | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...Hirsch: "The Locarno Pact. Don't ask me the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles Van Doren vs. the 1994 Quiz Show Dream Team | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

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