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- Bob Ford: Pimlico stirs memories of triumph and tragedy
- BALTIMORE - Thirty years ago, on the third Saturday in May, in what was grandly called the "Auxiliary Press Viewing Area," I leaned against a loose timber railing on the edge of Pimlico Race Course's roof and saw a horse named Affirmed gallop down the stretch exactly one neck ahead...
- Research articles 2008-05-17
- 'Intelligent' vacuums, mental typewriters at top high-tech fair
- BERLIN AFP — The world's biggest high-tech fair opens this week, showcasing the latest in robotics, computers and consumer electronics to make the hearts of gadget fans beat faster. The CeBIT, running March 9-15 in the northern German city of Hanover, will host more than 6,200 exhibitors from 71...
- Research articles 2006-03-06
- Double monodigital sighting really rare
- Question: From a Utah reader: "My husband and I were driving when he happened to spot the odometer reading 22,222. Then we drove immediately to a store where we made multiple purchases and, yup, at the checkout the total was $222.22. We are wondering: Is there any way to figure...
- Research articles 2006-02-09
- Skousen was his own eager taskmaster
- As senators in Washington debated whether Samuel Alito is qualified to safeguard the U.S. Constitution as a Supreme Court justice, and as moviegoers in Utah debated whether Larry H. Miller had the right to drop "Brokeback Mountain" from his theater, it was somehow poetic that Cleon Skousen should quietly pick...
- Research articles 2006-01-13
- Boris I. Bittker.(Yale Law School professor)(Testimonial)
- I first met Boris Bittker on January 21, 1977, in Miami. There are only a handful of people whom you remember first meeting. For me, Boris was one. For the past twenty or so years, I have been lucky enough to count him as a friend. He...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Old TVs to follow typewriters to dustbin under US Senate bill
- WASHINGTON AFP — Old television sets, still used in about 40 percent of US households, are likely to be banished to the dustbin of history three years from now under a budget bill passed by the US Senate. The bill, which for the first time establishes that US broadcasters...
- Research articles 2005-12-21
- Keeper of the keys.(starter motor maintenance)
- Q I have an intermittent problem starting my Corvette. Most of the time, it starts up fine, but once in a while, it won't crank over. Twice I've had it towed to the shop down the street, and it starts just fine for them. In fact, if...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- Whittaker Chambers
- Whittaker Chambers In 1948 TIME magazine editor Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961) testified that in the 1930s he helped organize a Communist spy ring in the U.S. government. His accusations against State Department official Alger Hiss stunned the nation. Jay Vivian Chambers was born April 1, 1901, in Philadelphia. He took his...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Open Mike (Broadcasting and Cable)
- The FCC Should Listen In the editorial "Fight the Tyranny of the Minority" (Dec. 20, page 28), the argument that the government shouldn't respond to violations of the law or suggestions for good policy because of public comment or individual persuasion is bizarre. ...
- Research articles 2005-01-03
- Reports Debunk Documents Rather Used to Attack Bush
- As HUMAN EVENTS goes to press, most of the world has accepted the fact that CBS used forged documents to impugn President Bush's credibility on a September 8 "60 Minutes 11" broadcast. But anchorman Dan Rather and his producers are still standing by their story and the apparently forged documents."Everything...
- Research articles 2004-09-20
- Whittaker Chambers
- Whittaker Chambers In 1948 TIME magazine editor Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961) testified that in the 1930s he helped organize a Communist spy ring in the U.S. government. His accusations against State Department official Alger Hiss stunned the nation. Jay Vivian Chambers was born April 1, 1901, in Philadelphia. He took his...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- City Desk: Towers Still - World Trade Center Towers become icon - Brief Article
- It has been brought to my attention that the icon for this column is inaccurate, since the skyline formed by the steam that rises from the coffee mug beside the typewriter still includes the World Trade Towers. Of course the typewriter is also inaccurate -- it is years since even...
- Research articles 2002-09-30
- Perspectives
- "I've decided what I should do is to put my health first... This is not the right time to run for office." New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, ending speculation that he will drop out of the race for U.S. Senate against Hillary Rodham Clinton in New York to concentrate on...
- Research articles 2000-05-29
- 20th century keepsakes
- SAN FRANCISCO NYT -- By far, the item most nominated as a 20th century endangered object is the slide rule, an engineering-student accessory for decades. According to the informal San Francisco Chronicle poll, among the other modern marvels destined to mystify future generations: the automobile crank, paper tape reader for...
- Research articles 1999-12-13
- Helping a poor nation's poorest people
- Self-help undergirds Lutheran work with Dominican sugar workers The manual typewriter with the scuffed white case might fetch a few dollars at a yard sale in the United States. But it's priceless in Batey Yabacao, a tiny Dominican Republic village of sugar plantation workers who use the typewriter as a...
- Research articles 1999-04-01
- Letters
- The key witness Sir: James Srodes's essay on the late Alger Hiss (`The spy of the century', 23 November) contains a statement going to the heart of the government's case against Hiss. Hiss, a former US State Department officer, was convicted in 1950 of perjury for denying that he had...
- Research articles 1996-11-30
- The mad bomber: FBI holds suspect in Unabomber case; evidence of guilt said to be growing
- LINCOLN, Montana--What went wrong in the life of Theodore Kaczynski? What turned a promising young math student who breezed through high school and college into a recluse? What turned the oldest son in a loving and close family into a man now charged with murdering three people and maiming 23...
- Research articles 1996-04-29
- Journey amid paranoia.(bombing in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)(Beat the Devil)(Column)
- A book promotion tour, which took place during the time of the bombing in Oklahoma City, OK, is described. The first reports indicated that Middle Eastern terrorists were suspected, however by the second day Army veteran and militia sympathizer Timothy McVeigh had been arrested.Guilford, Vt. THURSDAY, APRIL 20: No one...
- Research articles 1995-05-15
- Innocent after all? - the Kremlin files and the guilt or innocence of convicted spy Alger Hiss - Cover Story
- ON OCTOBER 14, 1992, General Dmitri Volkogonov, the designated teller of Soviet secrets, declared that long-standing charges that Alger Hiss spied for the Soviets a half-century ago were and are "completely groundless." Hiss was the victim of "either false information or judicial error," he said, adding operatically, "You can tell...
- Research articles 1993-01-18
- PC-terminal network updates teaching of English and journalism.
- Eighteen Zenith PC-AT-compatible personal computers and an Alloy PC-Plus network have replaced typewriter usage in English and journalism writing courses at Western Illinois University. The students and department faculty experienced positive results from the change, and eventually began writing electronically. The faculty made a slower adjustment to terminal usage, due...
- Research articles 1988-03-01
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