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...residents of the Pacific Northwest, whose electricity and water supplies have been threatened since late September by a man calling himself J. Hawker, the plot was real and all too earnest (TIME, Nov. 4). The ordeal finally ended last week when David W. Heesch, 34, of Beaver Creek, Ore., admitted responsibility for a bizarre extortion scheme involving the bombing of eleven electrical transmission towers of the Bonneville Power Administration, a threat to set a fire in the Bull Run watershed, which provides water for the city of Portland, and a $1 million ransom demand...
...hillbilly," Miller says with an Appalachian twang, "and I'm proud of that." The son and grandson of miners, he was born in the town of Leewood (pop. 250), in the Cabin Creek region southeast of Charleston, W. Va. After finishing a ninth-grade education ("It was all they had"), he went down into the mines at 16. He eagerly enlisted in the Army in World War II and fought in North Africa, Sicily and the Normandy invasion, where his face was horribly disfigured by machine-gun fire. Miller spent two years in military hospitals, enduring 19 operations...
...just a single stick of dynamite tossed through a window of the Midway Elementary School on Campbells Creek Road at 3:30 one morning last week, and it caused only about $1,500 worth of damage. But the explosion, plus a renewed school boycott and a desperate trip to Washington by a fundamentalist delegation, all served notice that the textbook trouble in Kanawha County, W. Va., will be around for some time...
...wealthy Manhattan socialite named Winthrop Rutherfurd. Hidden in a private Secret Service car, Lucy attended all four of Roosevelt's Inaugurations. He phoned her constantly, speaking in French if a member of his staff was in the room. They often met secretly in Washington's Rock Creek Park. Lucy would climb into the back of the big, seven-passenger limousine with the President, and they would drive slowly for an hour along the winding roads...
...major at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, trains as hard as any cowboy, lifting weights (she bench-presses 140 lbs.), doing push-ups and riding. The women's first big paydays will come on Oct. 5 and 6 at the Girls Rodeo Association championships in Spring Creek, Nev. The purse...