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Selig, who was contacted yesterday in Arizona,said Coleman has been a pioneer during the pasttwo years in taking baseball to minoritycommunities and in getting baseball involved incharity...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: Harvard Grad Assumes National League Post | 3/9/1994 | See Source »

Their zig-zag escapades from the Midwest to the Southwest make "Bonnie and Clyde" an adventure flick in the style of a pioneer Western. As Clyde and Bonnie travel, they move farther and farther from civilization and its attendant rules. In their travels they pick up C.W. Post (Michael J. Pollard), a gas station attendant, Clyde's brother-in-law, Buck (Gene Hackman), and his wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons), a nag and complainer who puts a damper on the group's free-wheeling fun. She is a constant reminder of the boredom and drudgery of the world that Bonnie...

Author: By Deborah E. Kopald, | Title: Faye Love Breaks the Bank | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

Colleagues say most of Warren's research involved giving large doses of radiation to terminally ill cancer patients, but that such experiments were acceptable at the time. Warren was a pioneer specialist in the biological effects of radiation...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Warren Tested Workers at Harvard Cyclotron for Radiation Exposure | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

...healing on Can We Shop. She also brings on other celebrities to promote their wares: Dolly Parton appeared as one of Rivers' first guests to shill her own line of "goof-proof" Revlon cosmetics, for which the singer has also completed an upcoming infomercial. Rivers sees herself as the pioneer of a new genre combining selling with show biz. "This is entertainment in big letters," she says. "You're not getting close-ups of snake chains; in a few years there are going to be 35 shows in this format...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make Way for the Sellevangelists | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...conspiracy might never have come to light were it not for the wildly assorted cast of characters who teach and study at Pioneer Pacific College, a small vocational school outside Portland. It was here that the players converged: Eckardt, the bodyguard who allegedly helped hatch the plot; Eugene Saunders, the young born-again pastor to whom Eckardt confessed, with a frightening telltale tape; and Gary Crowe, the private detective who ultimately blew the lid off the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figure Skater Tonya Harding: Tarnished Victory | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

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