Dimitri Tiomkin wrote High Noon's prize-winning musical score. Asked in an interview how a Russian-born concert pianist could write Western music, Tiomkin had a quick reply. "Did Strauss," he inquired hotly, "have to be an Olympic swimmer to write The Blue Danube?"

December 1, 1990

Engineers digging a railway tunnel under the Channel broke through the last dividing rock and joined Britain to mainland Europe for the first time since the Ice Age.