Correspondent from the New York Times. He has been the host of an hourlong weekly news and Interview Program on new york one. He is the author or editor of eight previous books and his latest, a history of new york, is the vibrant story of the metropolis told through distinctive objects in new york. And both books will be on sale in front of the museum after the talk and they will be here to sign them. Talese has written 11 books and was a reporter for the new york time and has written for times, esquire, new yorker, harpers magazine and other pub lications. In the late fall of 1964, gay taleses remarkable book, the bridge, was published. In his early days as a reporter, he followed the construction closely and on many occasions putting on a hard hat and joining the workers on the iron beams. More than just a story of a famous bridge, he produced a tribute to those who built it in an absorbing treatment which reminds us how manmind structures affect lives. The release of the book is in
He has been the host of an hourlong weekly news and Interview Program on new york one. He is the author or editor of eight previous books and his latest, a history of new york, is the vibrant story of the metropolis told through distinctive objects in new york. And both books will be on sale in front of the museum after the talk and they will be here to sign them. And gay talese has written 11 books and was a reporter for the new york time and has written for the times, esquire, new yorker, harpers magazine and other publications. In the late fall of 1964, gay taleses remarkable book, the bridge, was published. In his early days as a reporter, he followed the construction closely and on many occasions putting on a hard hat and joining the workers on the iron beams. More than just a story of a famous bridge, he produced a tribute to those who built it in an absorbing treatment which reminds us how manmind structures affect lives. The release of the book is introducing a new generation o
The bridge and they share with the bridge endurance, and they love fact that the bridge was so beautiful and to work on something thats beautiful. Im sure in the time of the renaissance, probably some of those anonymous cathedral builders, those laborers who put the stones to some church or the coliseum. I mean, we knew who were the people who built the coliseum but they did something and a heavenly sense of living in that hereafter. These people work on something its finished and it goes on and on and they die or their have a lot of my age and they still look with wonderment at this bridge that gap no older. The bridge is as young as it was as and 64 and the rest of us age. What didnt age is the glory and the achievement. Thank you, joe spratt. A. Q. , gay talese. Thank you all for coming. And gay will be happy to sign copies of the bridge. [applause] would like to invite everybody to join us at the front of the museum where you can speak more with gay and joe and sam and will be sign
East coast. We begin in Southern Colombia. People there digging through rubble after devastating mudslides that took place, many of them hoping to find relatives or friends still. More than 200 people are missing. At least 254 are presumed dead. Some families barely able to escape before their homes were destroyed. The colombian president visited the region affected. A cnn crew was there when the president spoke with a victim. The colombian president there speaking with people. He also says that he suspects Climate Change could be partially to blame. Our rafael romo picks up the story. Reporter it all happened very fast. According to a witness, it started raining friday night about 10 30, and the flood waters rose so fast that people had to run for their lives. Many houses were flattened, bridges collapsed, and highways were washed away. It happened in Southern Colombia. Mocoa is surrounded by three rivers which overflowed as a result of some of the heaviest rains the city has seen in
A Longview High School graduate has received a Bronze Star for actions while serving in 1970 in the Vietnam War. Clint Pruett, who graduated from Longview High in 1965, was