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...night spots in a Rolls-Royce driven by a young Hispanic. This was a mistake Bennett repeated: he made himself too visible. He even drove up to a South Central car wash in his Mercedes-Benz to boast to bystanders, "I got more keys ((kilos of cocaine)) in my trunk than you all got clothes on your back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fling of a High Roller | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...Communist Party in Vietnam is like a big tree. But the roots are loose, and the trunk is hollow. There are people within the party who realize that the challenge is not how to maintain the tree, but how to make it fall in a way that will cause the least damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NGUYEN VAN THIEU: An Echo from America's Last Big War | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

Sure enough, Grant soon is choppering down on an island off Costa Rica. He notices a tree trunk, graceful and limbless, rising 50 ft. above the surrounding vegetation. It turns and looks at him. Yes, a dinosaur. An entire island crawling and stomping with them, in fact, intended to be the world's most exciting theme park, as soon as a few flaws are worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dino DNA | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...second to death. Taylor brutally assaulted his third bride -- bright, insecure, eager-to-please Teresa Benigno of Staten Island, N.Y. -- on their Acapulco honeymoon. A year later, he bludgeoned her to death with a barbell, drove about the country for four days with her , disfigured body in the trunk and then abandoned car and corpse in eastern Pennsylvania. Under police questioning, he confessed to the crime but claimed that a coked-up Teresa had first attacked him, after he caught her performing oral sex on their infant son Philip. The jury had no trouble disbelieving this lurid fantasy. Today Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fatal Swath | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...surf casting. Stempel and his wife Pat have three children, two grown and one in college. But Stempel is intensely private about his life outside the company, a feeling that carries over from the kidnapping of his son Timothy in 1975. (His son was rescued from a car trunk, and the kidnappers were caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Boss: A Car Guy | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

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