Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...variously requited love but of murder. The headmistress, 57, admits that she shot and killed the cardiologist, 69, on the night of March 10. But did she shoot him in a cold rage over his affair with a younger woman? Or did she kill him accidentally in a near midnight struggle over the .32-cal. revolver she had brought to his suburban New York estate, intending to kill herself after a farewell visit...
...dinnertime on Monday in a Washington preparing to inaugurate Ronald Reagan, and nearly midnight in Algiers, where Deputy Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher was trying to nail down the last elements of the deal to free the 52 American hostages. Christopher picked up the phone that connected him directly to the White House. Using his code name, "Superman," he was immediately put through to the President, and, in comparing notes on the latest impasse in the bargaining, the two men came up with a ploy. When he hung up the receiver, Christopher ordered his State Department plane readied...
Outgoing Administrations have often tried to leave a lasting impression on U.S. legal affairs by making important decisions just as they were turning over power to the rival party. Before President John Adams left office in 1801, he appointed more than 200 "midnight judges" in an effort to pack the judicial system with his fellow Federalists. On Lyndon Johnson's last working day in the White House, the Justice Department filed a monumental antitrust suit to break up IBM. Twelve years later, the case is still dragging through the court...
...roster of names only their mothers would recognize, Vermeil forged a team as iron-willed as himself. His brother Al Vermeil recalls: "When Dick was in college, he would get up for an 8 o'clock class, be in school until 4 p.m., work from 4 p.m. until midnight in Dad's auto mechanic shop, study from midnight to 3 a.m., then go to bed and get up at 7 a.m. and start over again. He developed the ability to push on." He, in turn, taught the Eagles to push on. Says Tight End Keith Krepfle: "He tore...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Doris Day, 56, pert, wholesome movie actress (Pillow Talk, Midnight Lace) and singer; and Barry Comden, 45, restaurateur; after five years of marriage, her fourth, his second; in Los Angeles...