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...Life in the Fast Lane John DeLorean, the flashy General Motors executive who started his own company and created the DeLorean sports car, died last month [MILESTONES, April 4]. TIME profiled him after his arrest for allegedly selling cocaine to finance his failing business; he was later acquitted...
...DIED. JOHN DELOREAN, 80, flashy, maverick General Motors executive who went on, as head of his own Northern Ireland-based company, to develop the DeLorean sports car, now a collector's item; in Summit, New Jersey. After making just 8,900 cars, he was arrested for allegedly selling $24 million worth of cocaine to finance the failing company-which quickly collapsed. (He was later acquitted on an entrapment defense.) His stainless steel two-seater with doors that open upwards like a gull's wings did not sell, but won lasting fame as the time-travelling vehicle in the 1985 film...
DIED. JOHN DELOREAN, 80, flashy, maverick General Motors executive who went on, as head of his own company in Northern Ireland, to develop the DeLorean sports car, now a collector's item; in Summit, N.J. After making just 8,900 cars, he was arrested for allegedly selling $24 million worth of cocaine to finance his failing company, which quickly collapsed. (He was later acquitted on an entrapment defense.) Although he did not sell many of his stainless-steel two-seaters, whose doors open upward like gulls' wings, the DeLorean won lasting fame as the time-traveling vehicle...
...time-traveling exploits of Back to the Future duo Marty McFly and his DeLorean may not be such a stretch after all. In his new book, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality, theoretical physicist Brian Greene ’84 suggests that time travel and teleportation are well within the realms of quantum mechanics, a conceptual framework of physics that emerged in the 1930s...
...even more pertinent than his degrading pornographic magazines is Flynt's reckless disregard for the truth. A bit of Flynt's history sheds light on his disrespect for the public and the powers of the media. In 1983, Flynt claimed he had evidence that government officials had threatened John DeLorean's life if he did not participate in their cocaine operation. But Flynt later admitted that the audiotape was as "Fake as a $3 bill." That same year, Flynt declared he had tapes depicting members of Congress and President Reagan in sexual acts but was unable to produce the evidence...