Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While workers were preparing to transfer 20,000 gal. of liquid propane gas from a derailed tank car to trucks in Waverly, Tenn., the gas suddenly exploded, leveling 14 buildings. "It was just like you were thrown into a furnace," said Truck Driver Carl Stokes, who was burned severely. "It was like a power throwing us into the sun. People were walking, their clothes were gone and their bodies were completely burned." The toll: twelve dead and at least 50 injured...
...signed and saw was Australian Rupert Murdoch; after an unauthorized detail from the book appeared in his New York Post and New York magazine two weeks ago, the syndicate threatened legal action and the disclosures stopped. Meanwhile, a false story spread that the book was being typeset in Kingsport, Tenn...
Reader Torey Stanley of Oneida, Tenn., calls Social Security "truly a farce" [Nov. 28] and reports that he was denied benefits after an accident at age 22 because he "had not worked the past five out of twelve years." A wage earner disabled at 22 who meets all other requirements needs as few as six calendar quarter-years of work out of the past twelve to be insured, not five years...
...Oneida, Tenn...
Fidrych's descriptions of minor league life are the most colorful passages in the dialogue. Traveling through America's rural heartland, he plays in such populous cities as Thetford Mines, W. Va., and Bristol, Tenn. This is old time baseball, where Fidrych says "the game is still played." He recounts the pleasurable squalor of the "Jim Dandy Trailer Park," remembering how they whiled away the listless backwater hours with beer and cards. In contrast, his entry into the big leagues is a step into national limelight. Within two months of his first professional start, he is the best pitcher...