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...blaze moved toward Santa Cruz, a nudist camp in its path was evacuated, scores of animals were rescued, including a wildly oinking 600-lb. sow, and lone fire fighters in the hilly terrain made desperate last stands against the flames with garden hoses. Nine helicopters churned overhead, dumping water when necessary and lowering equipment to the fighters below...
Some along the mountainside survived as the water surged by just below them in the valley. Farmer Valentino Tretter saw the cloud of white dust raised by the torrent and climbed above the valley road to investigate. "Soon after, the mud came across my garden and my barn," he recalled, "I shouted toward the house of the Vinante family, which is a little underneath mine, but in a few moments it was wiped away. Adriano, his wife Pauola and their three children--all are dead...
...like Yoshitaka Kawamoto, was not far from the hypocenter when the atom bomb exploded. Like Kawamoto, Numata devotes much of her time to speaking to schoolchildren about her experiences on Aug. 6. She spends her private hours in her orderly, sun-filled house on a canal, tending a small garden bright with hydrangeas, peonies, red camelias, sweet daphne and amaryllis; and taking care of several cats and a large, cheerful doll that sits near the porch and whose outfits she changes according to the seasons. Numata smiles easily when she talks. She enjoys watching the ballet on television...
...garden party hosted by the Queen was laid on at Buckingham Palace. During opening ceremonies at Westminster Hall, Her Majesty's Scots Guards bandsmen drew in their breath and tootled out Chattanooga Choo Choo. Barristers at the Old Bailey blinked uncertainly at that strange foreign phrase, "Have a nice day." And London's Daily Mail marked the occasion by proclaiming, "The loudly checked leisure suit and dime-store cigar make a welcome return to the city." Ten thousand American lawyers, and nearly as many spouses, children and friends, were on the town in London, assembled in tax-deductible (maybe) pomp...
...divorced in California last April; in Somerville, N.J. Ruling on a petition by De Lorean challenging the California court's jurisdiction, a New Jersey judge declared their Golden State divorce invalid. Rather than appeal, lawyers for Ferrare, who is remarried to TV Executive Anthony Thomopoulos, decided on a normal Garden State divorce, with a hearing now scheduled for early autumn...