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There is no question that Torp and his friends were tempting fate. They set out despite storm and avalanche warnings. During their sojourn, the skiers repeatedly heard the roar of snowslides letting loose. "It was sheer luck they didn't get caught in one," says Doug Bitterman, the avalanche forecaster who posted that day's warnings. Nearly three dozen avalanches rumbled through the area, posing an enormous risk to the rescuers...
...competitive factor in late-night TV for the first time. Casual viewers studied the subtleties of Letterman's contract and debated NBC's knotty dilemma: Stick with Jay or switch to Dave? NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw couldn't escape the subject even during a vacation following his reporting sojourn to Somalia. After a day of "birding and fishing and dodging hippos" in a remote area of Botswana, Brokaw said, a guide noticed his Late Night cap and asked, "Do you think that Letterman is going...
HONG KONG'S GOVERNOR, CHRIS PATTEN, HAS learned that he does not have to go to China to be snubbed. A week after his chilly sojourn in Beijing, Patten was stood up by a retired Chinese official who abruptly bowed out of a long- standing luncheon appointment at Government House. Meanwhile, pro-Beijing newspapers in the colony kept up their fusillade of ad hominem attacks on Patten, joined even by moderate members of Hong Kong's skittish business community...
Gore traveled through Connecticut yesterday onone of his first solo campaign trips. His NewEngland sojourn marks the first time a Democraticnominee has visited this region since last month'sconvention
...strange epiphany for an American who went to Britain as a scholar at Cambridge and stayed on to revive and edit the successful literary magazine Granta. Buford's sojourn among the thugs began on an ordinary Saturday in 1982 after returning home in the company of berserk soccer fans bent on tearing $ apart their train. To find out "why young males in England were rioting every Saturday," he joined the drunken legions of Daft Donalds, Barmy Bernies and Steamin' Sammys as they rampaged around Europe like latter-day Storm Troopers, trashing cities and forcing hooligan into the vocabulary of much...