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...this space, but occasionally commerce and virtue coincide. Behold the Graffiti Gobbler-"the first effective, no mix, inexpensive formula that quickly and easily removes graffiti without harming the original appearance of the surface." (Did you feel your heart leap?) Already proved successful in Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Detroit and Windsor, Ont. (Canadian graffiti?), the "spray-on, wipe-off' Gobbler is right now being tested on the New York City subways, the end of the line. If it works there, its Australian inventor, Norman Shuttleworth, will be the Emperor of Gotham. No fame will equal his. His name will appear...
...four acknowledged heroes of the event, three are able to account for their behavior. Donald Usher and Eugene Windsor, a park police helicopter team, risked their lives every time they dipped the skids into the water to pick up survivors. On television, side by side in bright blue jumpsuits, they described their courage as all in the line of duty. Lenny Skutnik, a 28year-old employee of the Congressional Budget Office, said: "It's something I never thought I would do"- referring to his jumping into the water to drag an injured woman to shore. Skutnik added that "somebody...
...emotional impact of the disaster is the one known at first simply as "the man in the water." (Balding, probably in his 50s, an extravagant mustache.) He was seen clinging with five other survivors to the tail section of the airplane. This man was described by Usher and Windsor as appearing alert and in control. Every time they lowered a lifeline and flotation ring to him, he passed it on to another of the passengers. In a mass casualty, you'll find people like him," said Windsor. "But I've never seen one with that commitment." When...
...people are powerless in the world. In reality, we believe the reverse, and it takes the act of the man in the water to remind us of our true feelings in this matter. It is not to say that everyone would have acted as he did, or as Usher, Windsor and Skutnik. Yet whatever moved these men to challenge death on behalf of their fellows is not peculiar to them. Everyone feels the possibility in himself. That is the abiding wonder of the story. That is why we would not let go of it. If the man in the water...
...agreed to play backup for more than half of the contestants. This means that he will be competing against himself, but this, he says, is commonplace; there is a pleasant quality of neighborliness at fiddlers' contests. He excuses himself to warm up Joe Lecouffe, 76, from Windsor, Vt., who is trying to play Redwing with blue fingers. Lecouffe says later that he learned to play his fiddle as a child in Canada, then gave it up and started again about ten years ago. "Read music?" he says, grunting at the humor of this. "I don't even know...