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...brand new, push-button telephones in the 26th-floor editorial offices overlooking Manhattan's Central Park are brilliant red. So is the floor -fire engine red. "I painted it myself," boasts Publisher Bartle Bull, 36, as he flips through, a stack of folders that are also, well, red. Bull, former publisher of the Village Voice, and Editor Dennis Smith, 35, fire fighter and bestselling author (Report from Engine Co. 82, The Final Fire), are ablaze with enthusiasm for their new monthly magazine. The scarlet letters on the charter issue due out Sept. 10 read Firehouse...
Between the 24th and the 26th of February, 1972, 3.72 inches of rain fell on Logan County, West Virginia--not unusual as the state climatologist would later testify. But it was enough, because there were no spillways built into the dam. On the morning of the 26th, Steve Dasovich, head of operations at the Buffalo mine, sent bulldozers to relieve pressure on the dam. It was too late for that, though. When they got to the dam a little before 7 a.m., it was gone. And 21 million cubic feet of water and God knows how many tons...
...March, Congress found itself behind the people. It hurried to catch up. On March 3, it sent Connecticut Delegate Silas Deane to France to negotiate for military aid; on the 14th, it voted to disarm all Loyalists; on the 19th, it authorized privateers to intercept British merchantmen; on the 26th, it placed an embargo on exports to Britain and the British West Indies. On April 6, it opened ports of trade to all nations except Britain. By May 10, John Adams was writing to James Warren, president of Massachusetts' Provincial Congress, "Every post and every day rolls in upon...
...endorsing Bayh. He said that after having had the opportunity to speak with all of the competitors, he thought that Bayh was "head and shoulders above the other candidates." O'Neill Jr. mentioned Bayh's impressive record in the Senate and his help in drafting the 25th and 26th Amendments as proof of the contender's worth...
...Saturday's slalom, Jewitt took 19th and Anton finished 26th. Gordon Adler was 36th...