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...married and youthful Senator from Massachusetts at home with a toddler in Georgetown, the moments of total loneliness on airport ramps and in strange motels when few people knew who Jack and Jackie really were, the dejected Kennedy who thought he was losing it all in West Virginia or Oregon, the hoopla of the convention and the moment when Jack asked Lyndon Johnson to take the vice-presidential nomination...
...novel finds a vision of the Virgin Mary. She also finds Satan, smart alecks and all the screaming spirits of premillennial America crying out to her for salvation. Within days of her first Marian sighting, 5,000 pilgrims are following the ecstasies of what they call Ann of Oregon, Greater Catholic Merchandise Outlet trucks are circling around and timber companies are sending out their p.r. representatives...
...play is a hot property, with three simultaneous stagings at regional theaters this fall, one of which--the McCarter Theatre's at Princeton, with Jimmy Smits playing the lector--is transferring to Broadway next month. Another of Cruz's plays, Lorca in a Green Dress, is being staged in Oregon. His Two Sisters and a Piano, about a pair of Cuban political prisoners under house arrest, will be produced next year in San Diego and London, and he's finishing up a play, Huracan, for Washington's Arena Stage about how a hurricane changes the lives of the inhabitants...
...DIED. JACK ELAM, 84, character actor who played mean hombres in hundreds of movies and television episodes; in Ashland, Oregon. Elam, who said his rolling, blind left eye was the result of a childhood fight, appeared in several classic westerns, including Rawhide, High Noon and Gunfight at the O.K Corral...
Thinning also seems of dubious merit in many mixed-severity fire regimes, except as a protective measure around the perimeter of communities. Consider, for example, the Biscuit fire that hopped and skipped across 500,000 acres in southern Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest last year. Slightly more than 15% of this rugged, geologically complex region was so seriously burned that virtually all the trees died. Around 65%, however, experienced fires of light and moderate severity, while some 20% escaped unscathed. Seed from areas where vegetation survived is already drifting into areas where vegetation was lost, and many important species--knobcone...