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...need is immediate," Palay warned," Guatemala is in ruin...
Then Dorothy took to stage center. With tears in her eyes, she repeated the same accusations, and dramatically asked the gathering why "those reporters wanted to ruin my career." The next day, photos of Dorothy's tears made the newspaper rounds. It reminded me of Nixon's Checkers speech...
...reason for Dorothy's clockwork anxiety is simple lack of confidence. "I think I look lousy," she says. When an ABC sports crew offered to rerun a video tape of her free-skating program in Colorado Springs, she declined. She is particularly afraid that a fall will ruin her performance. "Think how much time I've put into this, and how much other people have to help me. With one mistake, it could all go down the drain...
Just as the new year was about to begin, just when Americans were hurrying home to celebrate, the searing instant of destruction occurred, with no warning and no explanation. It turned New York City's La Guardia Airport into a bloody ruin, killed eleven people and injured 51 others. Appalled by the act, President Gerald Ford ordered an immediate study by federal officials to try to prevent such tragedies from happening again (see box). There was immediate speculation that some terrorist group must be involved, and that what has come to seem a worldwide epidemic of political terrorism...
There is also a new elementary school two miles from El Bahu, which means that the children of the village are the first in its history to be able to get an education. "At first we thought the school would ruin us," said one middle-aged fellah. "We need the children to go into the fields in the spring and pick the eggs of the cotton worms before they hatch. With all of them in school instead of in the fields we were in danger of disaster. But the government agreed to change the school term. Instead of ending...