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...severity of the sentence was in part a measure of the social harm Hofmann had caused. Salt Lake City had been thrown into a panic by the seemingly random nature of the bombings, and the Mormon Church had been rocked to its foundations by Hofmann's faked documents. Hofmann's most notorious forgery had been the so-called White Salamander letter, which he sold to Christensen and Gary Sheets in 1984 for $40,000. It alleged that Church Founder Joseph Smith had been led to the Mormon scriptures not by an angel, as Smith had maintained, but by a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Latter-Day Forger | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...wearing the face of hatred. White- robed thugs from the Ku Klux Klan shouting "Go home, niggers!" Out-of- state zealots who call themselves Aryans and dementedly pledge allegiance to Adolf Hitler. Young kids too, in checked shirts and baseball caps, waving the Confederate flag. A few stones were thrown, and one woman was hit by a bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racism On The Rise | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...Because chapstick is never thrown away," it said. He, too, had never heard of anybody running out of chapstick. He explained that until this day, all tubes of chapstick had been lost before used up. When an owner loses a tube, it makes a migration to its final resting place, the tube explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dry Lip Delirium | 1/30/1987 | See Source »

...difference in Contramania was that Reagan was too detached. Donald Reagan had isolated the president from the issue. The disclosure was thrown at Reagan, forcing him to assume the role of "reactor" instead of his accustomed role as "actor...

Author: By Seth Goldman, | Title: Presidency in Absentia | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

...only other event won by the Crimson was the 20-lb weight thrown 34 ft., 2 3/4 in. by Co-Captain Frances Edozien. Edozien finished second in the shotput with a toss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Makes Boston Quiver | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

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