Word: middletowners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first correspondents to arrive on the scene of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island last March, TIME New York Bureau Chief Peter Staler spent the best part of the next six weeks in Middletown, Pa., covering the near disaster and its aftermath. On the eve of the accident's anniversary, Staler returned to Middletown to see how the community had been affected. His report...
...every motorist topping the hill at Swatara and heading south on Route 283. The fields surrounding the neat farmhouses on either side of the road are as brown as they always are in March and covered with a stubble that suggests a two-day growth of beard. Middletown, a community of 11,000 whose residents farm, work at the Fruehauf factory, or teach at the local state university campus, looks as scrubbed and businesslike as ever...
With nothing more lasting than a sort of perverse pride, Middletown survives the floods that have sent the Susquehanna into more than a few local living rooms. But a year after the nuclear plant accident that transformed Three Mile Island's cooling towers from local landmarks into symbols of the atomic age's worst nightmare, Middletown carries its scars. "You don't go through what we did and emerge unscathed," said Mrs. Joan Metz, 33, who lives seven miles from T.M.I. "The kids didn't understand what was happening...
...MIDDLETOWN, Conn.--Overcoming a snowy Mass Pike, quickly melting ice surface and a hot goalie, the Crimson icewomen edged out a weak Wesleyan squad, 2-1, here last Saturday...