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...Cary Stadium, Williamsburg, Va...
What caused the sell-off? Long-simmering worries about the health of the American economy, in the view of many experts, simply boiled over. A $200 billion budget deficit, says Brian Smith, a newsletter publisher in Alexandria, Va., would be roughly equal to the profits of all U.S. corporations, and nothing seems to make the deficit shrink. Said Albert O. Nicholas, president of the $1 billion Nicholas Fund in Milwaukee: "The economy isn't all that robust, and companies aren't coming up with the earning increases or even maintaining the earnings to support the stock-market euphoria that came...
...landscapes into vast mangy hides. Many U.S. service members probably owe their lives to the use of Agent Orange. For others it may have been only a temporary reprieve. Lieut. Zumwalt survived his tour without visible harm. He returned home in 1970 to marry Kathy Counselman of Falls Church, Va., go to law school and set up practice in Fayetteville...
...chaos aboard Flight 73 was all too real. "They herded us together and ordered us to lie down on the floor," recalled Dick Melhart, of Pullman, Wash., who had been thinking all day about how he should try to escape if the opportunity came. Said David Jodice, of Vienna, Va.: "They were shouting at us in pitch darkness, and then we totally panicked when they threw a hand grenade at the passengers." At that point, said British Passenger Michael Thexton, "everyone made a dash for it. I climbed out onto a wing and jumped down onto the tarmac...
There was a time, however, when it seemed that Steve wouldn't get down the academic skills to do either. "Hell" is what he says he put his parents through. Born in Fort Monroe, Va., Earle grew up in Schertz, Texas, just 17 miles northeast of San Antonio. It was the kind of place Earle recalls in Someday: "There ain't a lot you can do in this town/ You drive down to the lake and then you turn back around." As Earle grew up, his own trips out of town got more frequent, the turnarounds longer. "I wasn...