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...1950s and '60s; in Los Angeles. Despite heavy protest from preservationists, one of the three coffee shops was razed in 1984. Stern also played a key role in redefining the Las Vegas skyline; amid the low-slung hotels that pioneered the Strip, he built the 26-story Mint Hotel and the towering MGM Grand...
...turned twenty in a different world from yours, dearest Justin. Late Ike, pre-Camelot. My birthday was the first day of autumn, 1960. John Kennedy was running for President. He was a bright new dime fresh from the mint. That seems like a very long time ago. You round the corner into a world that is in so many ways so much better... and in many ways, terribly worse. But in any case, your...
EXECUTED. TIMOTHY MCVEIGH, 33, convicted terrorist whose truck bomb killed 168 people in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995; by lethal injection; in Terre Haute, Ind. McVeigh spent his last day writing to friends, napping and eating a final meal of mint chocolate-chip ice cream. McVeigh made no final statement, offering instead a handwritten copy of the 1875 poem "Invictus." He was the first person executed by the Federal Government in 38 years...
...program has helped cut Delphi's employee turnover from as high as 10% a month to 1.2% a year--and put newlyweds Giron and his wife Tania, via Delphi's employee savings plan, into a two-bedroom bungalow with a modern kitchen and interior, done in beige and cool mint, on a street appropriately named Hacienda de la Novia (the Bride's Ranch). Going to the U.S. to live and work doesn't cross their mind anymore. "We used to think the bosses living in El Paso didn't think too much about Mexicans," says Tania. "This makes me feel...
...McVeigh had two pints of mint chocolate ice cream for his final meal. He conferred with his lawyers on the morning of the execution, and made a point, witnesses said, of seeking out eye contact with each person who was there to see him die. After the lethal injection was delivered he lay still on the gurney, covered by a white sheet. At 7:14 Central Time, the warden pronounced him dead...