Word: mashek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...counter some of this bad publicity, Ford has allowed a couple of journalists to watch his decision-making powers at work. John Mashek of U.S. News and World Report spent a day with Ford, and John Hersey filled last week's New York Times Magazine with his report of a solid week with the president...
...Mashek found that Ford "met with an imposing variety of people," in an "air of humming activity." Hersey, who couldn't keep his eyes off the "twinkling Adam chandeliers," the "proud Hoban columns like marble guardsmen," and the violins of the U.S. Marine Band, was similarly impressed. A lot happens during his week. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Burns explains the economy to the president, bringing with him "several charts; on some of them upwardness is visible." At a cabinet meeting the president asks Earl Butz. "Are the farmers happy. Earl?" Earl replies evenly. "No sir, they aren...
...inches fell in less than 24 hours. The usually shallow mountain creeks burgeoned out of control, hurling waves of water down the hills into Rapid City. "We watched in amazement as a small stream spilling from the hillside turned into a four-foot-wide torrent," recalled Jerry Mashek, a reporter for the Rapid City Journal. "Rapid Creek, normally clear and placid, sounded like a freight train passing in the night. It must have been 150 feet wide...
...smell of a world ripped apart hung in the air," said Mashek. "Gigantic blocks of asphalt and concrete as large as the walls of a house were strewn across the highway. Boulders lay haphazardly, and bridge structures were ripped and dangling. It was like nothing I've ever smelled before and hope to God I never do again." Another Journal reporter, Harold Higgins, stood on a bridge and watched a 30-foot house trailer "riding a wave like a surfboard." A woman reported "a Volkswagen floating down the street with the people hanging on and screaming for help...