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...below the fire's edge, trying to keep it from creeping down the 1,000 ft. to where it would menace the traffic on Interstate 70. Suddenly the wind wheeled around 180 degrees and began gusting at 47 m.p.h. The fresh infusion of oxygen into superheated air created a blowup, an unconfined explosion of unimaginable power. In a matter of moments, the fire above those on the slope had also become the fire below them...
...disaster, fire fighters paused to mourn their fallen comrades and to try to explain, to themselves and others, what it is about their work that proves so attractive and sometimes so fatal. On the playing field of the Glenwood Springs Middle School, fresh crews assembled the day after the blowup, waiting to relieve those who were still trying to extinguish the deadly Storm King fire. John Murray, boss of the Chief Mountain Hotshots, a Blackfoot Indian contingent out of Browning, Montana, mused, "The fire gets in your blood. You want to seek out danger and defeat...
Last week both Robert and Gloria struck back. Robert, who was his father's carefully groomed heir apparent before the blowup, filed suit to recover more than $2 million in cash and stock that he claimed was owed him under employment contracts. And in divorce court, Gloria sued for legal separation from her husband of 45 years. Charging that Herbert had beaten her, conducted extramarital affairs and engaged in financial chicanery, Gloria demanded control of either Dart or the family's real estate company. Responding through a lawyer, Haft denied any wrongdoing and accused Gloria and Robert of forming...
Over the past several years, this small town located about five hours from Denver has become internationally famous. Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have a ranch near here. Ivana and Donald Trump had their famous blowup over Marla Maples here. Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith breeze in and out of town...
France has had to threaten a major blowup in the E.C. to ward off CAP's immediate demise. In light of the Maastricht debacle and the Exchange Rate Mechanism fiasco, a war over the CAP might cause a complete E.C. meltdown. Then E.C. would come to stand for "Economic Crisis," and Europe would pull the rest of the world economy down with...