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...members' names is essential, so look for written records with their names and birth dates. Check high school records and Zina's death certificate or obituary. Thus armed, you can explore websites like ancestry.com classmates.com and rootsweb.com At the library, look up the Millers' old addresses in the R.L. Polk directories, which provide census information back to the 1930s, and check the New York Times indexes (available online for a fee) for obituaries and marriage notices. Another possibility is Social Security's letter-forwarding service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ask Francine | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...incumbent with a four-letter last name (Polk, Taft, Ford and Bush Sr.) has ever been re-elected. Dubya managed to break the streak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prediction Watch | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

...Lyndon B. Johnson; in Cavaillon, France. Kennedy called Salinger, a hard-living onetime investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, "the voice of the White House." After serving in the two Administrations, Salinger went on to become abc News' chief correspondent in Europe; he won the prestigious George Polk journalism award in 1981 for his scoop on the U.S. government's secret negotiations to free American hostages held in Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...Lyndon B. Johnson; in Cavaillon, France. Kennedy called Salinger, a hard-living onetime investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, "the voice of the White House." After serving in the two administrations, Salinger went on to become ABC News' chief correspondent in Europe ; he won the prestigious George Polk journalism award in 1981 for his scoop on the U.S. government's secret negotiations to free American hostages held in Iran. DIED. BETTY HILL, 85, who claimed that she and her husband were abducted by aliens in 1961; in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Driving in the White Mountains one night, the Hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/24/2004 | See Source »

...right now, at graduations," Nader ventured, "and sporting events and churches." Someone else proposed canvassing obvious lefty hangouts like vegan restaurants and bookstore cafes. The volunteers briefly debated waylaying people on bike paths, and then decided doing so would probably annoy them. But Nader's Virginia campaign coordinator, Jim Polk, knew where to find a mother lode of registered voters willing to put their names on a Nader petition. "Truck pulls," Polk said, patting his well-traveled clipboard as he suggested a quintessential red-state event. "People think they're doing George Bush a favor if they sign these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nader Effect | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

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