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With the Belknap's communications gear knocked out, Captain Walter R. Shafer had to shout commands from the bridge to his crew. Some of his men were forward, and the rest were aft around the helicopter pad. Because of the fierce blaze amidships, they were cut off from each other, and for a while the men in each group were afraid they were the sole survivors. On the forward deck, rescue crews carried wounded and burned men to a comparatively safe area in front of the missile housing, where they lay on the deck in a cold, drizzling rain...
...stories contain little drama; the characters' search, and their eventual despair, is all quiet, internal. The Bishop of Ostergothenburg (Minnesota), who believes firmly in the hierarchy of authority but whose position is usurped by a cold, efficient assistant, doesn't go out in a blaze of glory. He is sideswiped by a truck and merely stays a while in the hospital, "doing fairly well for a man of his age, he understood, until he took a turn for the worse." And that's all. It is the understatement in these stories that make Powers such a master of his chosen...
Since then, he has been running in a blaze of glory. As a senior in high school, Fitzsimmons tied the Connecticut outdoor two-mile record at 9:11.2, broke the state outdoor two-mile record at 9:08.7, and won the state cross country championship...
...them gets into his wife Carrie's (Joanna Miles) hair while she is cooking a birthday dinner. The bug gets a pretty good blaze going, and it is not long before Carrie is rushing around her California ranch-style house trying to extinguish herself, all the while looking as if she has just been hot-wired in a beauty shop. She expires, however, and Husband James goes even crazier. The fire bugs stun him with a show of their united intelligence and strength. Completely snapped, Parmiter tumbles into the fissure, the bugs besieging and barbecuing him relentlessly...
Arson Mystery. The mystery started last February with what seemed to be an accident. Fire suddenly swept Gateway's $110,000 main building and also wrecked some $60,000 worth of equipment the clients were assembling. Yuba City fire investigators said the blaze was apparently a case of arson, but they could not explain it. Gateway Director Donald Garrett, 43, a jovial, bearded man who weighed a jovial 300 lbs., moved all of Gateway's work to a smaller building that housed the upholstery project...