Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conant, a former managing editor of The Crimson, was later quoted by James Hershberg in his book James B. Conant as describing the event in this notebook: "My first impression remains the most vivid, a cosmic phenomenon like an eclipse. The whole sky suddenly full of white light like the end of the world...
TheTokyo subway gas attackwas just a rehearsal for a planned aerial bombardment of Tokyo with deadly liquid sarin, the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper reports. According to the paper, a notebook kept by Kiyohide Hayakawa, theAum Shinrikyo cult's No. 2 leader, details plans to destroy Japan's leadershipin a series of simultaneous guerrilla raids starting as early as next November. According to Ikuo Hayashi, another cult leader, the cult hoped to set up an "Aum Kingdom" by killing the country's top officials. The new disclosures add more fuel to speculation thatcult guru Shoko Asahara was planning to cause the apocalypse...
...Tokyo subway gas attack was just a rehearsal for a planned aerial bombardment of Tokyo with deadly liquid sarin, the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper reports. According to the paper, a notebook kept by Kiyohide Hayakawa, the Aum Shinrikyo cult's No. 2 leader, details plans to destroy Japan's leadership in a series of simultaneous guerrilla raids starting as early as next November. According to Ikuo Hayashi, another cult leader, the cult hoped to set up an "Aum Kingdom" by killing the country's top officials. The new disclosures add more fuel to speculation that cult guru Shoko Asahara was planning...
...41st floor office in New York City's midtown, Kennedy, a former assistant district attorney, says the glossy nonpartisan bimonthly will be a "fan magazine, a Rolling Stone of politics" (referring to the magazine that covers U.S. culture with an emphasis on music). He picks up a notebook and draws a big circle labeled politics intersected by satellites of books, Hollywood, media and music. "Instead of writing about the highest-grossing film, we'll write about the best campaign ad." Kennedy, who has a habit of referring to himself as "sort of'' an editor, laughs at his own doodling. Serious...
...Francisco city government became so corrupt that a citizens' Vigilance Committee took over, violently. The year was 1856. Across the U.S. in Brooklyn, New York, Walt Whitman watched with approval. He wrote in his notebook, "These [United] States need one grand national Vigilance Committee, composed of the body of the people," to overthrow the government in Washington. Walt Whitman...