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...white smoke clears then snickering. After another busy morning of phone calls trawling for hints on the state of the race for the papacy I found myself briefly alone with an eggplant and mozzarella panino at an outside table at the Bar Gianicolo in Piazzale Aurelio, about a half-mile up the hill from St. Peter's. With the sun warm on my face, I thought I might even manage to clear my mind for a moment of all things Vatican. Fat chance. Approaching from my left, I heard the discrete siren of a one-car police escort, with...
...Well, Alex, I used to be able to throw a pigskin over a quarter mile,” junior right fielder Lance Salsgiver told me. “Heck, I could throw it from the quad all the way to Dillon Field House...
...most Japanese buildings were made of wood; when the Bomb dropped, all but one or two of the structures that stood near the hypo-center of the explosion were flattened like paper hats. Kawamoto's school, the Hiroshima Prefectural First Middle School, stood only 800 meters, a mere half-mile, from the hypocenter. Two-thirds of his classmates were killed instantly where they sat at their desks. Some who survived were weeping and calling for their mothers. Others began singing the school song to bolster their courage and to let passersby know that the 13-year-olds were still alive...
...commandeered the basketball backboard over the garage and will not back off. Besides missiles and Air Force personnel, King's 5,000 acres contain spring wheat and fallow land in alternating green and brown stripes, a crop of oats, malting barley, a sleepy horse, a donkey and a 60-mile view extending to the Rockies. On a late-spring afternoon, the mountains glow like dark...
...tell the story of what happened then and, more important, of how we have been affected since, Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt set out on a 20,000-mile journey that took him from Los Alamos in New Mexico to the Pacific island of Tinian and to Hiroshima. The assignment was very different from his award-winning TIME cover story of Jan. 11, 1982, on "Children of War." That unique exploration of the thoughts and feelings of children growing up on the world's battlegrounds was the writer's own invention. But the Hiroshima story, says Rosenblatt, "is a historical event...