Word: crockett
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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February, 1979: The union holds its election of officers, with Charles Crockett and Darleen Bonislawski running on the same ticket for president and vice president. Incumbent president Mary Mullen opposes them. Bonislawski wins the vice presidency, but Mullen and Crockett finish tied for president...
...union's nine-member executive board declares one ballot favoring Crockett invalid, but calls for another election to determine the presidency. Two months later, Crockett wins by a wide margin, because, one source explains, "Mullen didn't let the people know the spoiled ballot wasn't her fault, that it wasn't trickery. She just sat around, and Charlie won going away...
...moment of the explosion David Crockett, 28, a photographer for KOMO-TV in Seattle, stood on a logging road at the base of the mountain. He heard a huge roar and looked up to see a wall of mud rushing toward him. Because of the terrain, the flood divided into two streams that passed on either side of him. Seeking desperately for a way out, Crockett kept moving along the road, speaking into his sound camera to record his impressions of the scene. Said he: "I am walking toward the only light I can see. I can hear the mountain...
...Crockett did live; a rescue helicopter plucked him off the mountain ten hours later. But Johnston was never heard from again. His campsite was strewn with boulders, broken tree trunks and ash with the consistency of wet cement. By week's end at least 18 people were known to have died in the eruption; at least 71 were reported missing and feared dead. Among them was Harry Truman, a crusty 84-year-old who lived with 16 cats at a recreation lodge near Spirit Lake, about five miles north of the peak. He had refused to leave weeks...