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...sign in stately Old English letters has been hung up on the worn red brick building, the leaky roof has been repaired, and the staff has thumbed gingerly through crumbling back issues, gathering fragments of history to print again. The Adair County Free Press of Greenfield, Iowa, is just about ready for its 100th birthday next week. Same newspaper, same family of editors, no sellout to a chain, no fortunes made or lost, circulation steady at 3,200 in a county of 9,500 and a town of 2,200. The back issues form a tapestry of small events...
...been more than 14 years since the last Americans were lifted off the embassy roof in Saigon, a televised vignette of ignominy that is still replayed in the U.S.'s memory. Now Viet Nam has suffered its own setback: after more than a decade of trying to defeat a rural insurgency in Cambodia, a Vietnamese expeditionary force has given up and gone home...
...last helicopter lifts off from the U.S. embassy roof and sways, almost tauntingly, in midair. The blast from its rotors flutters the now useless documents of the South Vietnamese, crushed against the gates, who were promised escape but are being left behind. Imbued by the occupying forces with the American Dream, they are abandoned to a nightmare retribution. That harrowing image from the newsreel of the mind not only inspired London's biggest new musical but is actually re-created onstage. While special effects generally promote escapism rather than emotion, the scenes of the hasty and haphazardly callous U.S. retreat...
...partial collapse of a YMCA pool roof in West Roxbury because of corrosion has not prompted Harvard or the city to change building inspection procedures, officials said yesterday...
...although corrosion is a problem on lockers and radiators at Blodgett, Lichten said employees have not noticed roof damage...