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...practice air-show maneuvers. Barely 15 minutes later, while attempting to circle the runway's control tower in a steep turn, it crashed at 170 m.p.h., narrowly missing nuclear weapons bunkers and a crowded airmen's school. No one had wanted to fly with the pilot-Lieut. Colonel Arthur Holland, a 24-year veteran about to retire. Indeed, two of the three other officers killed with Holland were there because their subordinates feared flying with...
Robbins quickly found himself some inspired collaborators: composer Leonard Bernstein and scenarist Arthur Laurents (Stephen Sondheim, in his first major musical credit, joined as librettist later). There were some stumbles: originally the pavement warriors were Jews and Catholics, but that reminded Laurents too much of Abie's Irish Rose. Puerto Ricans, who moved to New York City in great numbers after World War II, became the antagonists, squaring off against a gang of melting-pot whites...
Whatever Reed decides-to press for control of the Republican Party now or to rise above partisanship for a while-the religious right is moving toward center stage in American secular life. Henceforth, Reed told Time, "issues are going to have a moral quotient." The Christian Coalition, says Arthur Kropp of People for the American Way, "won't be content to be background music." They will want the oomph of the big band. And a choirboy will lead them. --With reporting by Laurence I. Barrett, traveling with Ralph Reed, and Richard N. Ostling/New York
...frontiers for transplant surgery. Thanks to Najarian's work, diabetics are no longer told that transplants are too risky for them. And it was Najarian who proved that patients could safely receive kidneys donat-ed by living relatives. "We're not talking about just any doctor," says ethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania, "but a giant of 20th century medicine...
That proposal created an immediate dilemma for the publications: Should they publish the material and possibly save lives or refuse to surrender their pages to a terrorist? Both Newsweek and TIME declined to say what they might do, and Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. released a noncommittal statement. "We'll take a careful look at it," he said, "and make a journalistic decision about whether to publish it in our pages." Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse, OMNI and other magazines, had no such hesitation. "I would do it in an instant," he said, offering not only to print the manuscript...