Word: jessicas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week as well, one that at first tugged only lightly at the fringes of the nation's attention, then seized it with surprising force as it inched toward a climax. For more than two days late in the week, Americans were gripped by the plight of little Jessica McClure, 18 months young, who tumbled down a well while playing in her aunt's backyard. Trapped underground for 58 desperate hours, the child seemed doomed. Yet a down-but-determined West Texas town rallied round and literally clawed its way to her rescue. The drama offered the ultimate counterpoint...
William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence" speaks of seeing the world in a grain of sand. Just so did Jessica McClure, bravely humming verses from a Winnie-the-Pooh song, tap the wellsprings of humanity. In a confusing week, it was the plight of this tiny girl that was most readily comprehensible, and best conveyed Blake's message that small things, and the life of an individual, are what really matter...
...ordeal began with every parent's nightmare: small children, unguarded for a few moments, tumble into tragedy. Jessica's teenage parents Chip, 18, and Reba, 17, live in a blue-collar section of Midland (pop. 100,000), a drilling center hard hit by the oil slump. Chip McClure is a house painter, and Reba helped baby-sit at the home of her sister-in-law Donna Johnson. It is still unclear how Jessica managed to fall through the 8-in. opening, partly covered only by a flowerpot, in the Johnson backyard. But suddenly last Wednesday she was wedged...
News Editor: Jonathan M. Moses '88 Night Editors: Emily M. Bernstein '90 Jessica A. Dorman '88 Joseph H. Kaufman '89 James E. Schwartz '88 Julie L. Belcove '89 Shari Rudavsky '88 Emily Mieras '90 Copy Editor: Helen H. Chin...
...Reagans telephoned Chip and Reba Gayle McClure, the parents of Jessica McClure, to "express their happiness at Jessica's rescue" from an abandoned well in Texas, Hutton's statement said...