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Whatever questions surround the assassination of John F. Kennedy, there has never been any doubt about who killed Lee Harvey Oswald. On Nov. 24, 1963, two days after he was arrested for Kennedy's killing, Oswald was shot to death in the basement of Dallas' municipal building by strip-joint operator Jack Ruby as a stunned nation watched on live television. Last week the gun used in the killing went on the auction block in New York City. The .38-cal. Colt Cobra revolver, which Ruby had bought for $62.50 at a Dallas gun shop, sold...
...estimated 1.3 million new businesses opened their doors in 1991, up nearly 9% from 1980, when 1.2 million start-ups were launched. More than half the new enterprises are sole proprietorships or microbusinesses with no more than two employees, typically operating out of a garage, basement or spare room. In most cases the entrepreneurs made the choice to drop out of corporate America to become their own boss. But with companies slashing their payrolls in relentless rounds of layoffs, the innovators are more and more likely to be corporate castoffs like Lewis...
...only one who ever thought CNN could come so far so fast. When Turner first launched the upstart 24-hour news operation in 1980, under the guidance of its brilliant but volatile president Reese Schonfeld, it had a staff of 300 and a newsroom tucked into the basement of a converted country club. Technical flubs were common: on the very first hour of CNN's first day, a story about baseball star Reggie Jackson was cut short when the transmission from New York suddenly went dead...
...Large unsupervised parties where kids drink to get drunk as fast as possible are regular weekend happenings for many American teenagers. And parents who grew up in the drug culture of the late '60s and early '70s often look the other way. "I know they are drinking in the basement, but I never go down there," admits a mother of Washington teenagers. "If anything happens, my excuse is that I don't know what they are doing...
Harvard Square Holiday Craft Fair--the fifth annual marketplace of exciting local and world crafts: jewelry, pottery, clothing and art. At the First Parish Church, 3 Church St. basement, Harvard Square. Saturday, Dec. 14 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 15 from noon to 6 p.m. For information call...