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...DENVER: Oklahoma City bombing suspect Terry Nichols desperately tried to save his own skin by providing the FBI with statements incriminating Timothy McVeigh, according to an official interrogation summary obtained by TIME magazine. Correspondent Patrick Cole reports in this week's TIME that Nichols said McVeigh was capable of building a bomb on his own, and that McVeigh had said he had "something in the works" three days before the attack. Nichols told the FBI he didn't learn of the bombing until the following day, because his TV reception was lousy...
...jury selection for the Nichols trial starts Monday, the case against him is not airtight, since no one claims to have seen Nichols and McVeigh actually building the bomb. Unlike McVeigh, Nichols has not been placed in Oklahoma City on the day of the bombing, and some observers believe that may save him from the death penalty...
When last we saw the Harvard baseball team, just as finals were commencing in May, it was on its way to Oklahoma to play in the six-team, double-elimination Midwest Regional of the NCAA Tournament. A victory in the regional tournament would have earned the Crimson one of eight sports in the College World Series...
...Crimson continued its dream run through the Regional the following afternoon when it topped Stetson 8-6. At 2-0, Harvard was just two victories away from a ticket to Omaha, but host Oklahoma state stood...
When On the Town opened in 1944, New York, New York really was a helluva town. And Broadway was one fabulous art form. Oklahoma!, cornpone revolutionizer of the musical, was playing nearby, and Carousel was about to open. Kurt Weill, Sigmund Romberg, Cole Porter and Harold Arlen all had new shows. As for the new kids, two of On the Town's creators were 31: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the co-stars who wrote the show. Two were 26: composer Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins...