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Since the 1981 Hyatt Regency Hotel walkway collapse in Kansas City, nearly $50 million in damages has been paid to survivors and to families of the 114 who died. In addition, Hallmark Card Inc., whose subsidiary owns the hotel, has agreed to give $6.5 million to local charities and $3.5 million more to plaintiffs. But new damage to the city's sense of security was inflicted last week when the Kansas City Star published an exposé of the department of public works. After a two-month investigation, a team of Star reporters who tailed 18 of the city...
...programmed "walk" at the Wright State biomedical engineering lab, Davis was bolstered by props. She was strapped to a parachute harness that supported a third of her 130 Ibs., and she gripped a pair of parallel bars as her legs stepped ahead of her down the 10-ft. walkway. Nonetheless, her achievement marked an important development: the marriage of 200-year-old electrical stimulation techniques to today's high-speed computers...
...visitor ambles to the ice cream pavilion in the town's square. Near by a sizable bookstore offers the works of Reinhold Niebuhr in paper and hardback, but no Playboys. A red-brick walkway shaded by great maples leads to the Hall of Philosophy, a determinedly Greek structure with large white columns. It would be impossible to utter a facetious word in this edifice, and Gene Outka, a professor of religious studies at Yale, is seriously posing conundrums, one of which concerns a military chieftain in some benighted land who has condemned ten political prisoners to death...
...Jack Rosenthal's editorials, bringing the paper's alltime total to 50. Among winners: Seattle Times Reporter Paul Henderson, for proving that a man convicted of rape was innocent; the Kansas City Star and Times, for jointly pinpointing construction flaws that led to the collapse of a walkway killing 113 people at the city's Hyatt Regency Hotel; the Detroit News, for investigations indicating that the Navy had misreported the causes of death of several servicemen; Humorist Art Buchwald, for commentary...
...sufficient; to get a bit more sleep, and to rid himself of the nightmare that the boatmaster will break out of jail and once again go for his head. Whatever else he thinks he does not say?sitting by himself in front of the television set, or pacing the walkway beside the fence, or facing the harbor full of boats that sail the world where everything is beautiful...