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Central Seattle in the early 1960s was not a land of easy opportunity for Delno and Ida Raines, or for the six children they raised in the house that Delno built from the remains of one the highway department planned to demolish. They named their fourth child Frank Delno, after his uncle and his father, but someone at the hospital misrecorded it on his birth certificate as Franklin Delano Raines, a name he has since come to use formally...
Frank has only hazy memories of the year the bottom fell out. His father was hospitalized, losing his job as a mechanic and forcing Ida to go on welfare. Delno regained his health but never his economic footing. For a while he picked beans at a truck farm on the city outskirts, making little money but guaranteeing that the family would have at least one thing on the table at suppertime. The Raines family ate beans so often "I'm amazed I can still eat them," Frank says now. Ultimately, Delno, who died last August, supervised a maintenance crew...
...life and accomplishments of scientist Carl Sagan deserved much more than the few inches you allotted to the news of his death [MILESTONES, Dec. 30-Jan. 6]. You have trivialized the passing of this intellectual giant, who will be greatly missed by his colleagues and admirers. Shame on you! IDA J. IPE Youngstown, Ohio...
...IDA, Michigan: A commuter airplane carrying 29 passengers and crew crashed in rural southern Michigan Thursday about 18 miles from Detroit Metro Airport. Delta ComAir Flight 3272 crashed and burned in Monroe County in an open field in cold and snowy conditions. Authorities do not believe any aboard survived the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to investigate the incident. Eyewitnesses say the plane dipped while in flight, then began spiraling before hitting the ground at a very steep angle. The plane, a Embraer 120 model turboprop, appeared to be thoroughly destroyed. The flight originated...
...understand how she can misconstrue Ida's strong-willed determination as "prim," "sanctimonious" or "stiff." The other actors created a funny, exciting, thoughtful production. Levenstein turned it into something extraordinary...