Word: wounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Says one FBI agent: "Can you imagine the scene? Fitzsimmons, the Pressers, White House aides, Nixon Administration officials all trooping in; questions about Teamster campaign contributions and 'exchange targets'-it would have been a replay of Watergate. Nobody in the department wanted that." So the FBI investigation wound up last year without results, and the contents of the Daley-Dennis reports remained unknown to the public-until...
...actors and artists, such effects often demand both time and patience. It took 81 hours, for example, for Christopher Tucker to turn John Hurt into the elephant man. Hurt had to report for work at 4:30 a.m. and, since he was not transformed until noon, often wound up on the set until after midnight. With his misshapen skull and body, which was in fact largely foam rubber, he was unable to lie down or even rest between shots. The tedium can result in tension on location, and there are some actors the artists will not work with. After clashing...
That tactic was used two months ago by Canada's Dome Petroleum to acquire a 52.9% interest in Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas, a Canadian firm controlled by Conoco. Stripped of its Canadian holdings, Conoco became a takeover target and wound up being acquired by Du Pont...
DIED. Alvin Feldman, 53, veteran airline executive who had headed Continental Airlines since last year; of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles. Feldman, whose wife Rosemily died of cancer in 1980, was losing a bitter fight to prevent a takeover of the company by Texas International Airlines (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...built up slowly, purposefully, the demonstration threatened to become the violent clash that Poland had been dreading-and miraculously avoiding-through a precarious year of labor unrest and political change. About 100 trucks, buses and taxis wound their way through downtown Warsaw early last week. The vehicles in the convoy were draped with red and white national flags and banners proclaiming A HUNGRY NATION CAN EAT ITS BOSSES and GIVE US BREAD. Then, suddenly, traffic policemen halted the lead drivers as they approached the Communist Party's gray stone headquarters on Jerozolimskie Avenue...