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...have learned of a rumored reward for anyone who recovered one. By then, Brazel later told the Roswell Daily Record, he had already returned to the littered field with his wife and two children, gathered the debris and taken it home. On July 7, while in Roswell to sell wool, Brazel dropped by the office of Sheriff George Wilcox, where, he recalled, he "whispered kinda confidential-like" that he might have found a flying disk. Sheriff Wilcox immediately phoned nearby Roswell Army Air Field, home of the 509th Bomb Group, and notified Major Jesse Marcel, the group intelligence officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DID ALIENS REALLY LAND? | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

Qubilah's deal with prosecutors called for all charges to be dropped if she did not commit a crime for two years. Last month she passed that milestone and resigned from the radio job, hoping to open a shop selling the knitted wool clothing she loves to make. But though neighbors and co-workers describe her as pleasant and quiet, her life in San Antonio was still a mess. Five months after she arrived, police were called by neighbors who heard music from her apartment but noticed newspapers piling up untouched outside. A police report says Qubilah came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BETTY SHABAZZ: THE TROUBLES SHE'S SEEN | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

Under the facade of the black wool, silk and leather, he realizes, the same college students rear their ugly heads. In fact, by the end of the evening when he hears a women screaming incoherently on the bus that returns him to school, he feels somewhat indignant. "What kind of formal is this?" he insists. What about the dignified manner with which adults at formal balls conduct themselves? He is struck by the sharp contrast between formal clothing and decidedly casual behavior...

Author: By Michael M. Rosen, | Title: A Mere Formality | 5/23/1997 | See Source »

...drag man...a real drag," muttered one tie-dyed-in-the-wool Ginsberg devotee who goes by the name "Bongo...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Beat Guru Ginsberg Recalled by His Fans | 4/9/1997 | See Source »

What a concept: Farmers cloning their best milk cows and ranchers replicating their best wool producers. Why not clone our best laborers so we can produce a group of subhuman slaves? And how about fighting our wars with literally thousands of Rambo-like killing machines? If they are wiped out, no loss--we can just make more! Maybe, eventually, we can use cloning to create a whole new race of superpeople with a pure conformity of mind and body. God have mercy on us all! STEVE BLACK Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

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