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Frank has only hazy memories of the year the bottom fell out. His father was hospitalized, losing his job as a mechanic and forcing Ida to go on welfare. Delno regained his health but never his economic footing. For a while he picked beans at a truck farm on the city outskirts, making little money but guaranteeing that the family would have at least one thing on the table at suppertime. The Raines family ate beans so often "I'm amazed I can still eat them," Frank says now. Ultimately, Delno, who died last August, supervised a maintenance crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUTTING EDGE | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...Harbaugh. The executive vice president of Toledo Molding & Die, which makes machine tools and automotive parts, says his company spent a full year finding a qualified tool-and-die repair worker for one of its seven plants. But now, with another tool-and-die specialist injured, the company must truck parts between plants for repair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE THE JOBS ARE | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

Like Beavis & Butt-head, King of the Hill is a manifestation of Judge's longtime obsession with an America of tract homes and monster truck shows, Dairy Queens and Wal-Marts. "Mike has surrounded himself in Texas with great raconteurs," notes Sam Johnson, a former Beavis writer who is now executive story editor on NBC's NewsRadio. "They regale him with tales of misfit friends and trailer-park relatives. Mike is repelled by this world and also incredibly attracted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COOL, DUDE | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...tightening its grip outside the U.S. and Western Europe. In India, researchers estimate that by the year 2000, anywhere from 15 million to 50 million people could be HIV positive. Half the prostitutes in Bombay are already infected, and doctors report that the disease is spreading along major truck routes and into rural areas, as migrant workers bring the virus home. In Central and Eastern Europe, countries that had largely escaped the epidemic are seeing an explosion in the number of cases, mainly among IV drug users and their heterosexual contacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: THE GLOBAL EPIDEMIC | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

CLEARED. TERRYL SCHWALIER, Air Force brigadier general in charge of a military housing complex in Saudi Arabia where 19 U.S. airmen were killed in a truck bombing in June; of any culpability in the blast; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 23, 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

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