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...tremor was felt far beyond the Bay Area. In Reno, 225 miles northeast of San Francisco, University of Nevada student Laura Mildon saw the clothes in her closet swinging on their hangers. In Los Angeles, 400 miles to the south, high-rise buildings swayed and water sloshed out of swimming pools. Jody Paul, an administrator for a film company working on the 23rd floor of a Century City tower, felt a gentle movement that gave her "a really strange feeling...
Over the past two decades, South Florida in general, and Miami in particular, lave undergone a Latin-flavored business boom that is putting much of the glitter back into the Gold Coast. Some 12.6 mildon foreigners, most of them Spanish speaking, visited the Miami area last year. At least 100 multinational companies now maintain their Latin American headquarters in South Florida. Though economic and political woes in Latin America are expected to slow the influx of tourists from the south, Miami will no doubt remain, as the late President Jaime Roldós of Ecuador put it, the "capital of Latin...
...evening's first raid was on the Plymouth pub, the Tom Elliott. The Rev. Wilfred H. Mildon, a mild-appearing man, went in alone by the four-ale door (to the public bar) to establish a bridgehead. When he reappeared and gave the thumbs-up sign, all six parsons trooped in, 30-year-old Pastor Arthur Bird's black & white accordion braying deafeningly...
...song's end, agile little Dr. Mildon jumped on the nearest bar stool. "Now," said he in a penetrating, high-pitched voice, "I want you to sing a song we find you people of Plymouth know very well-Abide with Me." The two chars sang every word without missing a note, sipping occasionally the while...
...Then Dr. Mildon went fast into a short sermon. Its catch phrase: "New men for a new world." "And now," concluded the parson, "please join me in a short prayer." He prayed in simple, informal language, thanked God for the safe return of servicemen and hoped for the spiritual safety of mankind...
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