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Thanks to John Baudouine, of Bullhead City, Ariz. (pop. 15,000), his town is now officially hotter than ever before. Baudouine, a fireman, is no sorcerer: for four years he has been in charge of reporting daily weather statistics to the National Weather Service for his stretch of western Arizona desert. Last April a stickler from the Weather Service told him to move his thermometer from the firehouse's comparatively cool, sprinklered front lawn to more "natural terrain." Baudouine picked a dusty patch 100 yards away, and the high temperatures in Bullhead City were promptly four or five degrees...
...incendiary bombs, ejector seats blasted from burning planes, a superheated machine gun opened fire spontaneously, missiles detonated. "It was pure hell," said Chief Warrant Officer Bob Henderson, "just ungodly." Rob Burton, 21, one of the fire fighters, recalled: "The first explosion knocked down two whole hose teams." Added fellow Fireman Bob Barton: "There were some of us buried under wreckage. We went up with our hose but lost pressure." Another seaman remembered the shock of seeing casualties brought below deck from the holocaust: "My chief was on the first load from the elevator. He was missing...
...generally affluent credit card-holding customers, and 44,000 employees in 1,000 travel offices and 77 international bank branches and investment offices. American Express also has some less well-known holdings, including a 50% interest in a cable television subsidiary of Warner Communications and total control of giant Fireman's Fund Insurance (1980 sales: $3 billion). Shearson's main offerings to the merger were 11,000 employees in 270 U.S. and overseas branches, plus $8 billion in assets in popular money-market funds, which in recent months have lured a small army of savers away from banks...
...Carmencita Antoniello, born prematurely just five days before the quake. She had been trapped in her incubator. In Balvano, 90-year-old Donata Zarillo was rescued after spending 30 hours trapped in the wreckage of her kitchen. "We heard her beating a piece of wood against the wall," explained Fireman Giancarlo Rocchi...
...trying to develop profiles of the killer or killers. In addition, Atlanta officials have enlisted 450 fire-and policemen in an unprecedented twelve-hour-a-day, door-to-door canvass to ask residents if they have seen anything unusual and give them pictures of the missing children. Says Fireman William Eberhardt: "This way the people see you're involved, and they have a tendency to get into the act themselves." True enough, if the neighborhood searches conducted by residents over the weekends are any indication. More than 600 people took part in the first one, on Oct. 18, which...