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While dancing in a revival of On Your Toes at Washington's Kennedy Center, Ballerina Natalia Makarova, 42, heard the crash too late. Two lengthy pipes used as scenery ballast fell to the stage, striking the dancer. Dr. Max Cohen, 42, a clinical assistant professor of surgery at George Washington University School of Medicine, who had been sitting front row center, treated her for a fractured shoulder blade and a 3½-in. gash across the scalp. "She is in some ways fortunate to have survived," says Cohen. "It could easily have been more serious." Makarova will probably require...
...Loudest Crash: Francis Coppola's One from the Heart, which cost $26 million, grossed $ 1.2 million, and is the undisputed winner of this year's Heaven's Gate award...
...Molepolole hospital is now operated by the Botswana government, and Merriweather has become the senior medical officer at Princess Marina Hospital in the country's capital, Gaborone. He was crippled in a 1971 auto crash that killed his first wife and almost ended his medical career. Walking with a limp and in some pain, he still makes his hospital rounds. A Commander of the British Empire, the unassuming doctor was elected the first speaker of the National Assembly when Botswana won its independence in 1966, a rare honor for a white...
Within the past few years, broadcast crews have died in helicopter crashes near Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston and Miami. Last New Year's Day, a Denver team survived a forced landing and a subzero night spent stranded, after its chopper headed into a blinding snowstorm to cover a small commercial plane crash...
...Denver station has revamped its policy on using choppers, though Key's crash was the city's fourth in 2½ years. Ogden denies that the stations are showboating. Says he: "News value is the predominant factor in whether...