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DIED. LUTHER HOLCOMB, 91, minister who worked for racial integration in the 1950s and '60s and who 40 years ago last week met President John F. Kennedy at the airport in Dallas and later announced to a shocked crowd that the President had been shot; in Henderson County, Texas...
...second time they've met in the playoffs (1/7/95: Pitt. 29, Cle. 9, at Pitt.). The Steelers won both regular-season meetings between these AFC North squads by only three points, yet they're the biggest favorites of the first round, at 7 1/2 points. Browns QB Kelly Holcomb fills in for the injured Tim Couch in the franchise's first playoff appearance since returning to the NFL in 1999. He performed admirably (111.0 rating) in splitting the first two games of the season as a starter, but the Browns' offense now focuses on rookie RB William Green...
...pace is furious, the narrative jagged and unsettling. Cases are wheeled in and out -- a severed hand, a gunshot wound, a child who has swallowed a key -- and while some are followed to a conclusion of sorts, others disappear without a trace. Yet the episode, directed by Rod Holcomb, is not just a cinema-verite jumble. The characters are fleshed out in a few deft strokes -- one doctor (Anthony Edwards) is being wooed by a cushy private practice -- without hype or sentimentality. These are doctors of stoic demeanor and blunt bedside manner, yet they're more honestly compassionate than...
...Things are different out here," says Dennis Holcomb of Shive-Hattery Engineers in Des Moines, whose search helped find Fibercraft for Sac City. Says Holcomb: "Iowa is full of small towns that can't come up with tax exemptions or low-interest loans the way bigger cities can in the East. So they turn to their friends and neighbors. It's truly a heartening thing...
...fellow researchers, anthropologist Bonnie K. Holcomb and Swiss journalist Peter Niggli, conducted extensive interviews of nearly 250 randomly selected Ethiopian refugees in several regions of the Sudan...