Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, the Germans did almost nothing to stanch the flow of sexual materials. The newsgroups that CompuServe removed are still active on millions of computers worldwide. CompuServe subscribers in Bavaria or anywhere else can simply switch to a less timid online service and re-enter the discussion. As Internet pioneer John Gilmore once said, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around...
...suits rumpled from the Beltway fray. Here at the entrance to Miami's Doral Golf Resort and Spa was David Horowitz, leftist turned conservative author. Behind him strode movement martyr Judge Robert Bork, so foully denied a Supreme Court seat. And here was Richard Viguerie, political direct-mail pioneer and prodigal son. For the preceding few years on New Year's, Viguerie had partied with the enemy, surrounded by moderates and liberals in Hilton Head, South Carolina, at a retreat known as Renaissance Weekend. This year was different. "These are the people I've been in the trenches with...
...PIONEER CAR STEREOS The conceit is amusingly elaborate. A five-ad print campaign titled "The Road-Kill Diaries" notes the afterlife insights of critters flattened by automobiles with distractingly good sound systems. Sample entry: "Spent the morning burrowing. Heard the sound of some powerful amps. Should've looked both ways...
DEATH REVEALED. THYRA JOHNSTON, 91, inadvertent civil rights pioneer; in Honolulu. Fair-skinned, blue-eyed and one-eighth black, Johnston lived as a white woman in Keene, New Hampshire, with her husband Albert, a black physician who also "passed." Their white neighbors were shocked when Dr. Johnston's application for a naval commission in 1940 led him to reveal the couple's racial background. But the small town was ultimately accepting--Dr. Johnston's practice actually increased--and the story became the basis of the 1949 film Lost Boundaries...
ARRESTED. JAMES BROWN, 67, funk pioneer; for domestic violence, following a 911 call from his wife Adrienne; in Aiken, South Carolina. The Godfather of Soul posted bond and was released...