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Another survivor was Zakia Fahoury, 88. She was lucky to be able to take refuge in a deep cellar where she keeps a supply of canned food and bottled water. Like many of her neighbors, she was determined to remain in Tyre, even though there was no electricity or running water and the Israeli raids could begin again at any time. "If we leave," she reasoned, "we will become like the Palestinians. We will lose our homes and our land...
...warns Taber, who is in the process of transferring to the New York City area to become an associate editor in TIME'S Economy & Business section. "The movers seemed bewildered by the cases of paper towels, dishwashing liquid and toothpaste my wife Jean had squirreled away in the cellar." Confides Taber: "She manages the family finances. As an economics correspondent, I never touch anything less than a billion dollars...
Always the city of prolific pitchers--even if the Indians' management trades them away before they blossom--Cleveland is the American League East's spoiler. The cellar team that comes to town and leaves it dirty, snapping triumph from the jaws of sure defeat. Ask the Red Sox. They've been frustrated by the Cleveland Indians since any Boston fan can remember...
...never chased a twister as did Gene Moore in your American Scene article [June 18], but as a small child I spent many hours, often at night, in a cellar keeping out of the way of twisters in Vici, Okla. These childhood memories are not among my fondest...
...usually was awakened and taken from a nice warm bed to the cellar. There we sat listening to winds, thunder and hail. When the door was lifted and somebody announced that all was clear, it usually would still be raining. Nobody bothered to carry me back to our house. I had to walk back barefoot in the mud, get a pan and wash the sticky red stuff off my feet. It was hard to wake me up for school the next morning...