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October 21, 1992

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Understudies By Choice: Chefs Who Really Do The Cooking

By Molly O'Neill

NOW to praise the sous-chef, the unsung hero of the stove. The one whose hand tends the flame but whose name remains obscure, seldom emblazoned on a starched white jacket, seldom embossed on a menu. A sous-chef's position is the same in every kitchen: he outranks all its cooks except the head chef, but his role can vary. The kitchens of large hotels, for instance, require a sous-chef with a streak of General Patton to deploy the culinary troops. In restaurants where the chef is consumed by administrative and social obligations, the sous-chef often becomes a Cromwell, turning flashes of chefly inspiration into dinner.

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Business Technology; How the Offshore Rigs Rode Out Gulf's Storm

By Thomas C. Hayes

It was two days after the most savage hurricane of the century ripped through the Louisiana gulf waters and Scott Sewell, the chief Federal regulator of offshore oil production, was touring the region by helicopter, dreading the worst. He was amazed by what he could not find. "The massive oil slicks that we didn't want to see weren't there," Mr. Sewell recalled recently. "There was very little environmental damage and, frankly, the losses were minimal given the ferocity of the storm."

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INSIDE

By Unknown Author

Doubts About the G.E.D. Holders of general equivalency degrees seem no better off than high school dropouts. Education, page B10. U.S. Studies M.I.A. Photos The Pentagon hopes photos provided by Vietnam will help clear up the fate of some men, officials said. Page A7. Greens Founder Was Slain The German authorities said that Petra Kelly, founder of the Green Party, was slain by her companion. Page A3.

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Immune Disease Mystery Leaves Patients in Limbo

By Mireya Navarro

He first noticed fatigue and a drop in weight in 1990. Over the next year and a half, he lost 12 pounds for no apparent reason. He went home from work so tired he could not exercise or go out with friends. Alberto T., a 31-year-old math teacher from Venezuela whose former boyfriend had tested positive for H.I.V., said he immediately suspected AIDS. But when he was tested for the virus, there was no sign of it.

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THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Republicans; Debating Done, Bush and Clinton Begin Final Push

By Michael Wines

No longer able to hope that Presidential debates would lure swarms of voters back to his ranks, President Bush and his advisers dropped the pretense today that campaigning as usual would win his re-election two weeks from now. Now it is trench warfare, and the battle plan became evident today along the railroad tracks and picture-book crossroads of small-town Georgia and South Carolina.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 21, 1992, covering October 21, 1992.

1
The Chase
Garth Brooks
Last week
1
Peak
1
Weeks
3
2
Automatic For The People
R.E.M.
Last week
—
Peak
2
Weeks
1
3
Some Gave All
Billy Ray Cyrus
Last week
3
Peak
1
Weeks
21
4
Unplugged
Eric Clapton
Last week
4
Peak
2
Weeks
7
5
Timeless (The Classics)
Michael Bolton
Last week
5
Peak
5
Weeks
2

Notable Births

1992Natasha Bassett, Australian actress^[†]

Natasha Bassett is an Australian actress and screenwriter born in Sydney, New South Wales.

1992Marzia Kjellberg, Italian businessperson and former YouTuber^[†]

Marzia Kjellberg is an Italian former Internet personality. Known for her videos on her now-inactive YouTube channel Marzia, Kjellberg has also ventured into writing, fashion design, and business. She is married to Swedish YouTuber Felix Kjellberg, known by his online pseudonym PewDiePie.

1992Damion Lee, American basketball player^[†]

Damion Lee is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for four years at Drexel University and transferred to Louisville for his final year of eligibility. After going undrafted in 2016, Lee played in the G League before signing with the Atlanta Hawks in March 2018. He then signed a two-way contract with the Golden State Warriors the following season, winning an NBA championship with the team in 2022.

1992Bernard Tomic, German-Australian tennis player^[†]

Bernard Tomic is an Australian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 17 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Tomic has won four singles titles on the ATP Tour.

Notable Deaths

1992Ante Ciliga, Croatian politician, writer and publisher (born 1898)^[†]

Ante Ciliga was a Croatian politician, writer and publisher. Ciliga was one of the earliest leaders of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). Imprisoned in Stalin's Gulags in the 1930s as part of the Great Purge, he later became an ardent Croatian nationalist, anti-communist and ideologue of the fascist Ustaše movement.

1992Jim Garrison, American lawyer and judge (born 1921)^[†]

James Carothers Garrison was the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, from 1962 to 1973 and later a state appellate court judge. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the prosecution of New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw to that effect in 1969, which ended in Shaw's acquittal. Garrison believed the assassination was the result of a conspiracy involving the CIA, the Mafia and other organizations. He wrote three published books, one of which became a prime source for Oliver Stone's film JFK in 1991, in which Garrison was portrayed by Kevin Costner, while Garrison himself made a cameo appearance as Earl Warren.

Historical Context for October 21, 1992

In 1992, the world population was approximately 5,505,989,816 people^[†]

Headlines from October 21, 1992

Understudies By Choice: Chefs Who Really Do The Cooking

Business Technology; How the Offshore Rigs Rode Out Gulf's Storm

INSIDE

Immune Disease Mystery Leaves Patients in Limbo

THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Republicans; Debating Done, Bush and Clinton Begin Final Push

The Chase

Automatic For The People

Some Gave All

Unplugged

Timeless (The Classics)

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for October 21, 1992