Maryland crane used to clean up bridge collapse also was used for a 1970s CIA mission
These days, a floating crane called the Chesapeake 1000 (nicknamed “Chessie”) has been tasked with the grueling task of salvaging shattered steel from last week’s deadly bridge collapse in Baltimore. I have taken on many jobs over the decades. But Crane’s most notable activity, until last week, was helping the CIA recover part of a […]
Damo Suzuki: Can’s free-floating vocalist gave us some of the 1970s’ most exotic rock music | Music
TThe German band Can, whose former singer Damo Suzuki has died at the age of 74, was an innovator in many ways, not least because the group featured two of the most original rock vocalists of all time. Their 1969 debut album Monster Movie featured American expatriate Malcolm Mooney’s machine-gun poetic stylings, but their most […]
Illinois cold case investigation identifies veteran missing since 1970s
The elderly man known as Seven was buried in a Catholic cemetery in Chicago in 2015, leaving only a numbered cement cylinder. Seven's identity was recently discovered by Cook County Sheriff's Office investigators using postmortem fingerprints. She was identified as Reba C. Bailey, a female Army veteran who had been missing since the 1970s. At […]
THIS lesson from the 1970s rings true TODAY
There is no doubt that 2023 will be a chaotic year, and for those born after the 70s, it will be the most chaotic year ever. But Glenn Beck remembers the '70s, and their own struggles weren't all that different from today's trials and tribulations: economic turmoil, despair, an energy crisis, rampant crime. Not only […]