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...Appalachians in eastern Ohio. By 11 p.m. 5 1/2 in. had pounded the foothills and cascaded into the hollows. In Shadyside, a village of 4,300 people along the Ohio River, residents were unaware that in the darkness a 40-ft. wall of water had risen in Wegee Creek, which is usually ankle deep, and was rolling toward them. It hit with enough force to knock frame houses off their foundations, carry mobile homes downstream and buckle the concrete walls of a tavern. One patron was carried away by the water; another survived by clinging to a bar stool...
...flash flood also turned nearby Pipe Creek into a torrent, damaging 50 buildings. Half of one house was found lodged in a bridge, 20 ft. above the receding water. As a dazed man looked for his home, a searcher observed, "He doesn't know his family is dead." No one was certain how many of the 52 people listed as missing might have survived. But by week's end 18 bodies had been found...
...industry contends that Kerr's notoriety has set back attempts to find a compromise solution to the logging controversy. "He's the most polarizing force out there," fumes Tom Hirons, owner of Mad Creek Logging in Gates, Ore. "He practices mental terrorism." Hirons and fellow loggers refuse even to sit down at the same table with Kerr...
...little," purred the orchestra conductor in Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours, "and out comes the music." For five glorious years, 1940-44, Sturges waved his wand and out came words and pictures. Nothing but Hollywood's most distinctive satires: The Lady Eve, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. So rent the movies. Don't read the book...
After the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek, Calif., gave front-page display to San Francisco's 1989 gay freedom-day parade, copy editor Bill Walter declared in a memo, "Bad things, disgusting things, inhuman things happen . . . But we don't have to describe every naked person, or show a photo of every dead body." The message was clear: "disgusting" things are better left off the front page. That is a dangerous mind-set for a journalist. Yet that spirit has permeated coverage of gay issues in general -- and of AIDS in particular...