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...with the disastrous 1960 Chile quake, which killed almost 6,000. In some places, including the port of San Antonio, three-quarters or more of the buildings were no longer habitable. In San Bernardo, five died when a church wall collapsed on a Roman Catholic $ congregation. Said Juan Andres Bravo, who had been helping serve Mass when the tremor struck: "It was a scene from Dante's Inferno. Horrible...
According to the Mexican account, the federal judicial police received an anonymous letter saying the two missing men might be found at the ranch of Manuel Bravo Cervantes, a former legislator, in Michoacan state. When some 30 federal judicial policemen approached the Bravo house, the police say, shots from inside killed an officer, setting off a half-hour gunfight. Bravo, his < wife and their two sons died in the battle. The police claimed they later seized two pounds of cocaine and a slew of guns and ammunition...
Then the walls came tumbling down. Two of the culture networks, CBS Cable and The Entertainment Channel, called it quits within a year of start-up. PBS's venture never got off the ground. Bravo, a pay service offering cultural programs and art movies, is still in operation but has only 109,000 subscribers. For most of the nation's TV audience, just one channel remains to carry the frayed banner of culture on cable: the Arts & Entertainment Network...
...distinctive as the ones fostered by IBM or Apple Computer. Indeed, Apple Co-Founder Steven Jobs last month cited Federal's Smith as one of his business heroes. Smith runs Federal with a military zeal that rubs off on his staff. He sometimes rewards outstanding work with Bravo Zulu stickers, which refer to the Navy signal flags meaning "job well done." Says Robert Sigafoos, author of the corporate profile Absolutely, Positively Overnight: "They have a 'kill or be killed' mentality, which permeates the ranks from top to bottom...
...meals," he says blithely, stuffing yet another cucumber sandwich in his mouth. The success of Charron's performance is that he does hate people who are not serious about food; he does, in fact, worry about tea. Not for a second does he realize the humor of his situation, Bravo...