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...Later that afternoon, a Black Hawk helicopter began circling the hilltop. In the guesthouse at the crossroads, owner Elfrida Barros gathered her five children around her in bed. "I was thinking that the big helicopter will bomb us and kill us all," she told TIME. Around midnight, she and other residents heard the sound of tramping boots. As soldiers moved toward the compound, the Black Hawk was joined by a second helicopter. At about 1:45 a.m., they landed in the corn patch tended by Jose Francisco and his family, 50 m below the rebel compound. Francisco says...
...born in the front passenger seat of a car where those highways cross. Women lacking transportation, a common problem in this working-poor area, have given birth in ambulances. Others may be giving birth across the border in Mexico or at home, says Dr. Jennifer Ryan, CEO of the Elfrida-based Chiricahua Community Health Centers...
...great television quiz-show scandal ended quietly last week. Pending for 15 months, the arraignments for the trial of ten erstwhile quiz masters were conducted in a Manhattan court. The great Hank Bloomgarden ($98,500) was there, and crop-haired Elfrida von Nardroff, whose $220,500 winnings were the highest of all. But every eye in court was on Charles Lincoln Van Doren, bearer of one of the great names in American letters...
...hats, but when she does she likes them large-brimmed and fem inine, though never fussy. If she has a fashion-signature, it is simplicity." . . . Reminding televiewers that the last echo of rigged TV quiz shows has not yet died away, a Manhattan grand jury called in onetime Quizling Elfrida von Nardroff, 34, winner of $220,500 on NBC's extinct, discredited Twenty One program, to tell what, if anything, she knew about sure-fire answers. As she left the hearing. Elfrida was asked by a pack of local newshounds what had happened at the session. Replied ex-Answer...
...Charles Van Doren won $129,000 on Twenty-One, Elfrida Von Nardroff...