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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When one of its planes crashes, the Air Force is usually quick to come forward with details of the accident. But after an aircraft went down during night operations near Bakersfield, Calif., last week, the military cordoned off the crash site just outside the Sequoia National Forest and refused to allow planes to fly above the wreckage. Tight-lipped spokesmen would do little more than acknowledge that a pilot had been killed...
...their orders within minutes, but finding out what they are actually eating usually involves a correspondence with company headquarters. Last week, though, five major chains bowed to longtime demands from consumer groups and more recent pressure from the attorney generals of New York, California and Texas for on-site fast-food labeling. McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Jack in the Box confirmed that listings of ingredients and nutritional content of all menu items will soon be available at numerous outlets...
...Deal) was going to realize his 30-year-old dream of rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe Theater. That hallowed arena on the south bank of the Thames probably held the first productions of King Lear and Macbeth before it burned to the ground in 1613. Wanamaker first visited the site in 1949, found only a brass plaque on a wall beside the debris-strewn riverbank and felt, "well, outrage." Over the years he and his Shakespeare Globe Trust faced the slings and arrows of competition from other restoration drives and a local borough council more interested in low-income housing...
...Leverett House resident volunteered at an excavation site in Africa's Ivory Coast as part of Operation Crossroads Africa and trekked through Mali during her college summers...
...Rice is having one of his best years, and the arrival of Don Baylor from the Yankees has added punch and the first sign of clubhouse leadership in anyone's memory. To the amazement of all, the Sox in a mid-June visit to Yankee Stadium, usually a favored site for the yearly crack-up, swept three games and in Baltimore mugged the surging Orioles three in a row. Said Oriole Manager Earl Weaver: "I'm going to jump in the pool and hope I don't come up," perhaps the first time that Weaver has ever threatened suicide before...