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While athletic centers served as triage centers and shelters, another building became a menagerie for animals of refugees. Outside the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, New Orleans natives sat on metal chairs, waiting for a way out of the scene which even O’Keefe acknowledged had no real leader...
That, more or less, has been the case with treating any current war on series TV. During Vietnam, M*A*S*H satirized the Korean War, while on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Pete Seeger sang Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, a protest song nominally about World War II. Hogan's Heroes, China Beach, even Operation Petticoat took place years after the hostilities. Only old wars were ready for prime time...
...wrecking ball to the Edwards Dam on Maine's Kennebec River, the results stunned even those who had lobbied for the dam's removal. Important fish species that used to swim from the ocean to spawn upstream--Atlantic salmon, alewives, sturgeon and shad--didn't just come back, marvels Pete Didisheim, advocacy director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, "they surged back." The next year, almost a million alewives were massing in the river. Fish are also rebounding in Virginia's Rappahannock River after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blasted a gaping hole in the Embrey Dam last...
Last week the first miners, some of them still bitter against their employer, began to be recalled. "I don't guess this is the way any of us wanted it to end," said Pete Adkins, a collier from Delbarton...
...gold loops in the chain will be some 1,000 celebrities, including Kenny Rogers, Bill Cosby, Lily Tomlin and Pete Rose, the four co-chairmen. Organizers stress, however, that "this is a people's event." A North Dakota radio station is sponsoring an essay contest that will reward winners with transportation down to the line. A chili cook-off is planned along the route in Texas. Members of the feuding Navajo and Hopi Indian tribes have got together to endorse the event. Along a ten-mile stretch in New Mexico, thousands of hot-air balloons will ascend simultaneously. The chain...