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PASSAGE A Work Record. By Irving Penn. With the collaboration of Alexandra Arrowsmith and Nicola Majocchi. Introduction by Alexander Liberman. Illustrated. 300 pp. New York: Callaway/Alfred A. Knopf. $100.
Dartmouth pushed Princeton around for most of 60 minutes today and left no doubt about which was the best football team in the Ivy League this season. The Green won the game, 31-13, and the league championship, Dartmouth's 15th in 35 years of Ivy competition, on a gray but temperate day before a crowd of 11,230 spectators here at Memorial Field.
In recognition of a changing of the guard at New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission, neighborhood preservationists and historians from all five boroughs honored recently appointed and outgoing commission members at a reception last week. The citywide Historic Districts Council was the host at the gathering at the Universalist Church on Central Park West and 76th Street. "This reception gives us a chance to get to know new members of the commission in an informal atmosphere," said Eric Allison, president of the council, "and also to thank the commissioners who are leaving."
Investigators looking into psychiatric hospitals that are operated for profit have uncovered evidence of fraud and abuse in the filing of insurance claims that could run into millions of dollars. The authorities say these investigations, coupled with earlier findings, suggest that insurance fraud and abuse may permeate the entire medical field and contribute significantly to the country's soaring health-care costs.
It is a shadowy business, the unregulated world of abortion mills, shabby clinics operating behind the facades of doctors' offices, often in poor neighborhoods. Its victims are women who know little about legal rights or medical options, who have seen an ad or heard a tip and come to this -- driven by fear and loneliness or fates beyond invention -- to risk butchery on a table. No one knows how many such fly-by-night surgeries there are in New York City or how many abortions they produce. But law-enforcement officials and medical experts say dozens of these clinics are believed to be tucked away behind storefronts and in more ordinary-looking doctors' offices and they are believed responsible for scores or even hundreds of illegal or incompetent abortions annually.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 20, 1991, covering November 24, 1991.
Garth Brooks
M.C. Hammer
Ice Cube
Nirvana
Guns N' Roses
1991Freddie Mercury, Tanzanian-English singer-songwriter, lead vocalist of Queen, and producer (born 1946)[†]
Freddie Mercury was a British singer and songwriter who achieved global fame as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen. Regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock music, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and four-octave vocal range. Mercury defied the conventions of a rock frontman with his theatrical style, influencing the artistic direction of Queen.
1991Eric Carr, American drummer of KISS (born 1950)[†]
Paul Charles Caravello, better known as Eric Carr, was an American musician. He was the drummer for the rock band Kiss from 1980 until his death in 1991. Caravello was selected as the new Kiss drummer after Peter Criss departed. He created the stage name "Eric Carr" and designed his on-stage Fox persona. He remained a member of Kiss until his death from heart cancer in 1991.
1991Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-44.[†]
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development, as a proposed nuclear shuttle in the plan was cancelled in 1972. It flew 135 missions and carried 355 astronauts from 16 countries, many on multiple trips.
In 1991, the world population was approximately 5,418,735,891 people[†]