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After a 45-min. cocktail reception, he spoke for an hour at the dinner to 400 people, two-thirds of them black. His speech was urgent but hardly incendiary. Said he: "The economy is in trouble, democracy is in trouble and we seem lost at sea without a leader." After the speech, Jordan lingered for a couple of hours with about 100 Urban League members in the Piper's Glen Room at the motel. He smoked a cigar, nibbled on hors d'oeuvres and talked with well-wishers about the civil rights struggles of the past...
Photographer Roger Werth, who took the spectacular photographs on this week's cover, hastened to the Kelso, Wash., airport and was in the air 20 min. after the mountain blew its top, aiming his camera through a tiny window next to him as the pilot dipped and tilted for better shots. Said Werth: "At first we couldn't see a thing, but the air cleared for several minutes and then there was the mountain and the huge plume heading up into the sky." Photographer John Barr was riding a National Guard helicopter during an air search, when...
After his 1-hr. 15-min. tour, Carter excitedly told reporters: "The moon looks like a golf course compared to what's up there." At a meeting with townspeople in Vancouver, the President was being briefed by experts on the economic damage of the eruption when Governor Ray interrupted. "This is all very interesting," she said, "but the top priority is people." Replied Carter: "What do you need specifically?" Ray spelled out her answer: "M-O-N-E-Y." In fact, before leaving Washington, D.C., Carter had declared the mountain's vicinity a federal disaster area, making residents...
...toward high-power lines. The Royal Canadian Mounties, aboard a helicopter, came to the rescue. Using the backwash from the rotors, the chopper pilot pushed the balloon toward a clearing in Ste. Félicité, Quebec, where the gondola finally dropped to the ground, 99 hrs. and 54 min. after leaving San Francisco Bay. For once Maxie's mind was not on the next challenge, which he had previously suggested might be a balloon flight around the world. Said he: "I'll leave that for another...
...hadn't she? On the assumption she had, New Yorker Rosie Ruiz, 26, was crowned as the first woman finisher in the 26.2-mile Boston Marathon. But doubts arose about Rosie's remarkable physical condition and stunning time: 2 hr. 31 min. 56 sec. Nobody remembered seeing her, except near the finish line; two Harvard students insisted they watched her join the pack half a mile away. Doubts also arose, as a result, about her 24th-place finish in the 1979 New York Marathon. Rechecked finish-line video tapes showed no Ruiz, although a computer had checked...