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...heading for Atlanta on a sunny afternoon with 27 passengers and a crew of four. That radio transmission proved to be Flight 105's last. About 1,000 ft. above the airport, one wing suddenly dipped. Later some witnesses said they heard an explosion. The plane dropped its nose and screamed toward the ground, crashing about a mile and a half from the airport. There were no survivors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milwaukee Flight 105'S Final Message; The Pentagon Calling Out The Reserves: | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...star admitted that he had played under the influence of coke as a Cardinal and had not been able to break the habit until just before he was traded to New York in mid-June of 1983. When he lost ten pounds and awoke one morning with his nose bleeding, he knew he was in trouble. "I had the shakes and I wound up throwing a gram down the toilet," he testified. But what finally turned him off, Hernandez said, was when he saw St. Louis Outfielder Lonnie Smith, who now plays for the Kansas City Royals, have such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball's Drug Scandal | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...bowel. The former lifeguard, once cheerily vain about his lifelong "coat of tan," has given up his morning sunbaths and wears a broad-brimmed straw hat to protect his face. These are also doctors' orders, aimed at preventing a recurrence of the skin cancer that was scraped from his nose last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back in the Saddle Again | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...belly of a high-flying, specially equipped F-15 fighter. Guided by ground stations tracking enemy satellites, the F-15 climbs several miles into the sky and fires the missile. The two-stage rocket then boosts the warhead out of the atmosphere and into space. The telescopes in the nose of the MHV pick up infrared radiation emanating from the enemy satellite and focus it on a heat-sensitive targeting device. The device is housed in a small refrigerator; just as light is easier to see from a darkened room, heat is easier to sense in the cold. The jets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Kill a Satellite | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...alert was instituted Monday, after a student was diagnosed with Rubeola. Symptoms of measles--not to be confused with German Measles, or Rubella--include fever, a runny nose and irriated eyes, followed by a rash on the face and body...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: University Continues Measles Watch | 8/9/1985 | See Source »

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