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...conservatives, black and white, to "publicly disavow the racist ideology" his book espouses. "This is a moment of truth for the conservative movement as to where they stand on the issue of race," says Woodson. "The only time you hear from white conservatives is when there is a white fireman aggrieved over affirmative action. If they want to have any influence in this area, they have got to speak out when blacks and Hispanics are aggrieved. This is one such occasion." So far, says Woodson, not a single white conservative has responded...
...white plastic chair by the ice machine at the Highland Motel in Bullhead City, Arizona; hang around the parking lot at the El Rey Motel in Searchlight, Nevada; knock on doors at the Desert Inn Motel in Needles, California, and the sad stories pour forth. There's the fireman who fled his eastern Washington home when his wife started sleeping with his fire-station colleagues. He moved to Alaska, worked security on the pipeline, then drifted south, where he gambles away his earnings as a casino janitor. There's the Michigan supermarket checker whose husband left when she told...
Suddenly a fireman heard a thin voice crying for help as though from deep in a cave. Dana Bradley, 20, lay in the darkness of the basement under a pile of cement girders, bleeding and her body dangerously cooling in a foot of water. But when a team of four fire fighters found her, they faced one harsh decision after another. That southwest corner of the building was highly unstable; there were girders smashed everywhere, with hundreds of tons of the remaining building above them. Bradley was lodged in a space so small that the doctors could scarcely reach...
Correspondent Pat Cole obtained one of only two interviews granted by the family of Baylee Almon, the one-year-old infant whose picture, taken as she lay cradled in a fireman's arms, has become an icon of national trauma. Cole, who usually reports for Time out of Los Angeles, has interviewed survivors of earthquake, fire and anarchy. "The only way to talk to people in that state is to let them know you have total sympathy for them," he says. "In this case, believe me, it wasn't hard...
...Evers, a Chance and a lot of stinkers. They came in sizes ridiculously large and incredibly small, ages old and older. They had worn the uniforms of the Brasschaat (Belgium) Braves and Melbourne (Australia) Monarchs. They gave up day jobs like stockbroker and bag boy and minister and fireman and even sportswriter. They all had the same dream, though, the same faint hope that they would appear in a major league box score for the first, or one last, time...