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Just before dawn, a pack of Times Square ruffians comes running wildly after a terrified, nearly naked young man. The mob is close behind, screeching, cursing, lobbing bottles and beer cans at the victim...
...first rays of dawn conquered the peaks of the Cascade Range last week, 23 climbers and six guides paused before attempting their final assault on the 14,410-ft. pinnacle of Washington's Mount Rainier. "The view was awesome," recalled Larry Martinson, 39, an insurance agent from Seattle. Then, while the climbers munched candy bars and took photographs some 2,000 ft. above the clouds, the morning stillness was shattered by what is surely the nation's worst mountaineering disaster.* It was only the first of two major accidents that Father's Day, the darkest...
...gray, rainy dawn last week, a virtually unknown colt named Summing started the slow walk from the barn on the backstretch at New York's Belmont Park. Ominous clouds were lowering as Summing jogged onto the training track. Then an exercise rider set him down on the rail, and Summing began to run. Railbirds could not believe their eyes, and the track's dockers stared at their watches in amazement. The bay colt pounded through the mist at a sizzling pace, and when he flashed past the mile pole Summing had set a new training track record...
...names of 963 members in the secret Masonic lodge designated "P2" (the P standing for "Propaganda"). The list had been found at the Arezzo villa of Licio Gelli, 62, a seemingly innocuous Tuscan-born businessman. Police carted out more than 1,000 letters, documents, diaries and ledgers in a dawn raid. Among the papers were confidential police intelligence reports from the 1960s that the government had ordered destroyed in 1974. Said an investigator: "The documents have a potential for blackmail in political, economic and journalistic circles. Licio Gelli had his hand in everything...
...place in New York that had a mixed audience." With other performers, like Billy Daniels, Billie Holiday and Paul Robeson, she found the family life she had always wanted. Robeson was both father and teacher, and after the show was over, the two of them would often talk until dawn. "He'd tell me about black people, about my people, my grandmother," she says. "He was supplying all the things I had missed when I was living with strangers...