Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grange Park, Illinois...
...Tokyo end of management seems in order; the trouble is between Tokyo and Hollywood. MCA's Lew Wasserman and Sidney Sheinberg -- the longest-running partnership in Hollywood -- have been heading the studio, but have openly complained that their pushes to go after CBS and to open a theme park in Tokyo were ignored. The Japanese firm is especially eager to keep the team intact since director Steven Spielberg, who made close to $1 billion for MCA with Jurassic Park, recently announced that he would stop working for the company if his mentor, Sheinberg, were to leave...
Frey gets to know Coney Island not as a place with a few old amusement park rides but as 50 square blocks of high-rises housing poor families and fractions of families. The athletes are the hope of the community, and they are talented enough to play at any college. Everyone knows this, including the big-time coaches who buddy up, winking and promising. For the honor of the neighborhood, Frey makes us feel, to redeem something from the miles of drabness, at least one of these guys must make it big. But the odds aren't good. The omens...
...illegal crossers are inventive; already there is evidence that they are probing the border for weak points. A surge of new crossings has been observed in places like Campo, California, to the east of San Diego, and Sunland Park, in the western part of El Paso. In Nogales, Arizona, arrests are up 51% from last year. "We're seeing a lot more folks from Baja California, who normally would cross through San Diego, and people from Chihuahua, who would usually cross in El Paso," says Nogales border agent F. D. Gunter. To cope with this surge, the Tucson sector...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Hannah Bloch, Barbara Burke, Tresa Chambers, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Lina Lofaro, Lisa McLaughlin, Lawrence Mondi, Alice Park, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, Sribala Subramanian, David E. Thigpen...