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Robert Allen, 54, and Mary Street, 76, were caught behind the locked doors and barred windows of the home they shared on Don Carlos Drive. "I could hear her hollering," said Neighbor Tyrone Tyler. "She had to be on fire." But no one could get into the house in time to save Street or her housemate. Near by, Marie Gladden, 62, filled a bathtub and jumped in to avoid the flames, but her body was found in the rubble of the house...
...dogs, too. Except for a period of six years or so after my father brought a dog home and the dog snarled at me, knocked me over and chased me upstairs into my room. I was terrified of dogs at that point. But then I made friends with our neighbor's cocker spaniel. Since then I've had one dog after another...
...mother Veronica taught in a local Headstart program and served on the community school board, had wanted to become a doctor, but was also considering a career in politics. He had planned to spend the summer working at a Wall Street investment house before heading for Stanford. To teachers, neighbors and friends of the family, the Perry brothers stood as prime examples of what the black community's youth could achieve. "Everybody looked up to Jonah and Edmund," Sheila Wright, a neighbor, told the New York Times. "They were models for the other kids." Said a former teacher at Edmund...
...first day Bella Davidovich sat down to practice the piano in her new apartment in Queens, N.Y., a neighbor slipped a note under the door asking her not to play so loudly. Winner of the International Chopin Competition, faculty member at the Moscow Conservatory, Deserving Artist of the Soviet Union, Davidovich was unknown to her new neighbors. Her nonpolitical departure from the U.S.S.R. had occurred without benefit of an international incident and the subsequent career-boosting headlines. Adding injury to insult, Davidovich had been mugged just after her arrival in New York City; unfamiliar with such American customs...
...blue jalopy creaks and groans, its bumper nearly scraping the roadway of the Good Neighbor Bridge, which spans the Rio Grande between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. The driver has given 29 fellow Mexicans a free lift south because he can bring five cartons of cigarettes into Mexico for each passenger in his car. Next comes a pickup carrying six teenage Mexican girls, all trim in their red vests. They are returning to Juarez from their classes at a Roman Catholic girls school in El Paso. Behind them is Yolanda Rivas, who is heading home after an eight-hour shift...