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It was mid 1978 and we were a team of mercenaries assembled by the CIA. Our mission: to assassinate a Soviet exploration team deep within the frozen wastes of the Antarctic. We weren’t told why we were to murder the Soviet team, and, of course, we never asked. But one member of our team suggested it was probably out of fear that the Soviet Union was upon the brink of making some important breakthrough in polar research. Since the early 1970s geographic and seismic studies had indicated b

Remember the Incredible Hulk TV show with Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno? It was an episodic TV series in the 1970s featuring a timid scientist and his monstrous alter ego. Whenever Bruce Banner (Bixby) got angry, he would turn into a rampaging green monster (Ferrigno in body paint), oblivious to reason and bent on destruction. The giant beast was so focused on his own rage that he lashed out at anyone and anything that had the misfortune to be near him. Fortunately that is just fiction. In real

FAYETTE PINKNEY, SOULFUL SINGER WITH THE THREE DEGREES By WILLIAM GRIMES Published: July 1, 2009 Fayette Pinkney, an original member of the Three Degrees who lent her strong, soulful voice to the 1970s hits “When Will I See You Again?” and “T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia),” the theme song of the television show “Soul Train,” died Saturday in Lansdale, Pa. She was 61. July 1, 2009 Fred Mott, Evening Standard, via Getty Imag

The bodies, dating from the mid-1800s to the 1970s, are remarkably intact. A museum hopes to use them to teach about the city, whose mining legacy reaches to the days of the Spanish rulers. Juan and Remigio and Ignacia and their closest neighbors can tell you a lot about life in this central Mexican mining town.