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...which is sluicing over dikes, sandbag barriers and splashboards. William Wert was on a raft excursion with 14 other vacationers shooting the Grand Canyon's Crystal Rapids when the 33-ft. rubber raft flipped; all passengers except Wert made it to shore. Farther downstream on the 1,450-mile river, in Mexico, four people drowned. "We cannot blame the Americans," said Francisco Gonzales, deputy police chief of the town of Luis B. Sanchez. "They did not make the rain and snow that are causing the river to rise...
...good-hearted hooker in Trading Places. "That would slow him down." Murphy has become best buddies with Joe Piscopo, 32 the adroit, rubber-faced comic actor who is the closest thing to Dan Aykroyd on the new SNL; next month Eddie will move into a new house a mile away from Piscopo in Alpine, NJ. Otherwise, his best friends are his oldest friends. One of them, Clinton Smith, is an assistant to Saturday Night Live Executive Producer Dick Ebersol Another, Derrick Lawrence, 28, has signed on with Eddie Murphy Productions as an all-purpose aide-de-camp...
...population of the earth could live compactly on a properly designed Haiti and comfortably on the British Isles." He once declared that "man has the capability through proper planning and use of natural resources to forever feed himself and house himself and live in workless leisure." He dreamed of mile-high floating cities and of a Manhattan enshrouded in a gargantuan plastic dome. But he was more than just a dreamer. When he died of a heart attack last week at 87, while visiting his wife at a Los Angeles hospital, "Bucky" Fuller left behind him, in the real world...
...wiry bachelor and former state legislator, topped former District Attorney Dale Tooley, 49, by fewer than 4,500 votes, out of the record 155,000 cast in Denver's mayoral runoff. His election makes him the Mile High City's first Hispanic mayor and augments a small but growing group of influential and visible Hispanic leaders across the U.S. All Democrats, the club includes New Mexico Governor Toney Anaya and Mayors Maurice Ferré of Miami, Henry Cisneros of San Antonio and Louis Montaño of Santa Fe. When Peña, a political unknown...
...marred the conclusion of the seventh shuttle mission, highlighted by the presence of the first American woman in space, was some damage to the shuttle's brakes and protective tiles. Yet Challenger's flight ended on a slightly disappointing note. Instead of landing on the new three-mile-long shuttle runway at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, the spacecraft was diverted at the last minute to California's sprawling Edwards Air Force Base. As Mission Control put it to the Challenger crew, there was some very cold beer waiting for them, except...