Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John's Moore excelled in English and wasa prize pupil of Brother Santoro's acclaimed highschool company, which won statewide "mini-academyawards" in repeated drama festivals. As a kid herecalls loving disaster movies and wanting toactually "play the Towering Inferno," and hismother says he annually staged a backyard pick-upplay, the way other kids would organize astreet-wide round of touch football...
NEARLY A YEAR after the Philadelphia inferno, the smoke shrouding the actions of Mayor W. Wilson Goode and his overlings has begun to clear. Or so we might be led to believe by the report released last month by Goode's self-appointed investigation committee on the Move disaster...
...THERE WAS another, more insidious element. The report concludes that police fired on Move members trying to flee the blazing building. They were caught between fire and gunfire. As one member of the committee said, "It's not human to run back into a raging inferno." For Move, it was not a question of surrender...
...been on hand for nearly every manned flight since, vividly recalls the only previous tragedy in the U.S. space program. It occurred in 1967, when an Apollo capsule caught fire on the launch pad, and Astronauts Virgil ("Gus") Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee perished in the inferno. Only the day before, Morse had been shooting aboard their spacecraft, and his photos of the three men lying strapped in their seats were used by NASA to study the accident that killed them...
...astronauts died of asphyxiation in the raging inferno, which began, NASA eventually concluded, with a short circuit in the Apollo's 20 miles of wiring. Flames spread along a nylon net under the astronauts' couches. Had the fire occurred in a natural atmosphere, the three might have had time to escape. But the blaze flashed through the pure oxygen in seconds. Even then the astronauts might have had a chance if they could have blown out Apollo's hatch by touching off explosive bolts. But Grissom was firmly opposed to the use of such bolts. Splashing down in the Atlantic...