Word: amboy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reed grew up in a poor family in the industrial city of Perth Amboy. N.J. As early as the age of 13, he says, he wanted to be a photographer--a desire documented in his eighth-grade yearbook. He took no photography courses in high school, however, and he began his formal training from a Newark art school only after his graduation...
Jean Curtis Amboy, Wash...
...Manhattan skyscrapers ten miles away. On July 4, an industrial-paint-manufacturing company that stored chemical wastes in its backyard flamed into a four-alarm blaze that spread toxic fumes over the city of Carlstadt, N.J. Three days later, storage drums at a chemical disposal plant in Perth Amboy, N.J., erupted in a barrage of explosions and a roaring fire that wiped out seven buildings and 16 businesses in an industrial park. Nearby residences were evacuated for several hours because no one knew how toxic the spreading smoke might...
...feisty octogenarian who remained behind at his lodge near Spirit Lake, in the volcano's shadow. It was also taking a psychological toll. The renewed ashfall, along with the danger of fresh flooding and mudslides, forced an exodus of residents from the nearby towns of Cougar, Ariel and Amboy to makeshift refugee camps. It was their second evacuation, and the volcano's continuing assaults were beginning to fray tempers. Said Otis Bouchard, a gas station operator in Castlerock: "I'll tell you one thing. I'm getting damn tired of this mountain." Tom Nelson, a supervisor...