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DIED. DOROTHY STICKNEY, 101, original spouse in Broadway's longest-running play, the fusty comedy Life with Father; in Manhattan. Stickney starred with Howard Lindsay, the play's co-author and her real-life husband. In 1939 the couple left a glitch-filled opening night in tears, but audiences adored the play's domestic drollery, sitting through seven years and some 3,200 performances...
McVeigh and his two sisters grew up in Pendleton, a small town in upstate New York. His father was employed by a company that made radiators; his mother was a travel agent. According to All-American Monster, a biography of McVeigh by a local newspaper reporter named Brandon Stickney, McVeigh's parents were often absent--his father worked nights and his mother led an active social life in the bars and bowling alleys of the area. When McVeigh was 18, his parents divorced and his mother moved to Florida. High school records obtained by TIME indicate that McVeigh...
...drifted, living in motels, visiting Fortier and Nichols. According to Stickney, McVeigh took methamphetamines, and he began to frequent gun shows. The prosecution hopes to show that during that period he became more and more bitter about the Federal Government. When the FBI raided the Branch Davidian compound on April 19, 1993, precisely two years before the Oklahoma bombing, McVeigh was outraged. In March of 1993, he made a pilgrimage to Waco that, by chance, another visitor recorded on video. Sources tell TIME that photographs show McVeigh near Waco handing out bumper stickers that asked, IS YOUR CHURCH ATF APPROVED...
Faced by multiple simultaneous crises last week, the tiny federal agency and its 2,500 employees bristled at all the criticism over the Florida effort. "I can't tell you how much this annoys me," FEMA director Wallace Stickney wrote to employees in a memo last week praising them for a "great job." FEMA official Grant Peterson, sweat dripping from his brow after a visit to Capitol Hill, groused about the bad press. "We've got five disasters on our plate right now," he said. "If there is any morale problem here, it's because people are taking unfair shots...
...Federal Emergency Management Agency is charged with taking care of disasters, natural or man-made. Last week it scrambled to remedy one of its own making. Director Wallace Stickney announced that FEMA had shredded a 1991 list of eight gay employees that an openly gay fema analyst had been pressured to provide in exchange for a security clearance. In April FEMA promised that the names would stay locked in a vault. But when Representative Barney Frank threatened to hold hearings if FEMA did not destroy the list, Stickney relented, calling the list "abhorrent...