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...blast created a 20-mile log jam along the Columbia River that blocked shipping between Longview, Wash., and Astoria, Ore. Volcanic mud carried by the river choked the harbor of Portland. Officials estimated that the ports would lose $5 million a day until dredges could clear a new channel through the silt, which in some places reduced the depth of the harbor from 40 ft. to 14 ft. Not all the long-range effects of the blast, particularly to the region's ecological balance, can yet be calculated. For example, the eruption killed a million fingerlings (baby fish...
Though the details are still sketchy, CBS plans an aggressive campaign to capture part of the rapidly growing cable market. It will not compete with pay TV networks like Time Inc.'s Home Box Office, but will make its profit by selling the new CBS channel to cable systems around the country and to advertisers...
...still perky and extremely sincere, McGraw will repeatedly deliver the "social awareness" line throughout the day. Every reporter and television host is suspicious of her motives for doing unpaid yeoman service to an organization that seemingly disappeared from view after the Sixties. If interviews press her--the hostess on Channel 56 asked McGraw redoubles her sincerity and comes up with creative variations on the original explanation: "It's an awareness campaign--you can really change the quality of life in America," or "It's not about raising money. It's about taking control of our lives...
...this isn't what the television audience wants to hear about. Channel 5's host guides the discussion back toward the really important issues in her life. How does she stay so young? ("I've begun to realize we are what our bodies are") and, How does it feel to be 40? ("I've realized all the good stuff is ahead"). Cut to commercial and that familiar Love Story theme...
...There is none. When the reporter continues to lunge for the definitive statement, the quotable quote, McGraw smiles and whispers, "I'm just living my life now." Her earnestness is infectious and everyone smiles. In fact, McGraw leaves a trail of fans wherever she goes. As she leaves Channel 56, secretaries clutter around for signatures and as she writes our her name on someone's napkin, she asks one woman what kind of perfume she is wearing and another where she got her arm's length of bracelets. McGraw even consents to posing for a photograph with...