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...town that has shared water supplies with Holbrook. Esther Ross, a Randolph resident, says she got worried in 1981 when she found herself going to a lot of funerals. There is a certain Times Beach ring to her recitation. "The people who owned the house next door were stricken by cancer," she says, "and the people next door to them, and next door to them. We had a six-year-old pass away from cancer in the neighborhood, and a 20-year-old." Ross started mapping the victims' homes. After Leah Abbott learned of the poison, she became an amateur...
...many, the most moving moment occurred when Actor Burt Lancaster read a telegram from Rock Hudson, the veteran movie and TV star who acknowledged last July that he had been stricken with the illness, which is almost invariably fatal. Hudson's disclosure sent shock waves through the West Coast movie establishment. More than anything else, it accounted for the sellout attendance at last week's $250-to-$500-a-plate dinner, raising an estimated $1.2 million for AIDS Project Los Angeles, a group that provides assistance to victims of the disease. Too sick to attend, Hudson referred poignantly...
Runways at Mexico City's Benito Juarez airport were largely intact, but flights into the stricken capital were halted for a while as officials checked for damage. By nightfall, Mexican airlines and most U.S. carriers resumed service. Some of the initial eyewitness accounts of the tragedy came from travelers on the first flights...
...nodded distantly and hurried on. The very air felt diseased. People dodged to the windward of those they passed. They sealed themselves in their houses. The deaths went on, great ugly scythings. Many adopted a policy of savage self-preservation, all sentiment heaved overboard like ballast. Husbands deserted stricken wives, parents abandoned children. The corpses of even the wealthy were carted off unattended, to be shoveled under without ceremony or prayer. One-tenth of the population died before cold weather came in the fall and killed the mosquitoes...
...fire fighters were powerless to stop it. Fueled by a variety of industrial-use chemicals stored in the structures, the fire consumed wooden flooring as though it were paper and blasted through brick walls, sweeping to residences in an adjacent neighborhood. By nightfall, said Police Lieut. Richard Wolak, the stricken area looked like "four blocks of flames...