CABLE CAR VICTIM STILL IN HOSPITAL.Byline: Staff and Wire Services An 80-year-old woman whose husband died when two cars collided on the Angels Flight funicular railway remained hospitalized Saturday at Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County/USC Medical Center, officials said. Lola Praport of Old Bridge, N.J., suffered head and back injuries in the crash Thursday when cable came off a spool and one rail car careened backward into the second car. Officials said her condition was stable Saturday. Dave Watson :For the 1970-80s footballer, see David Watson (footballer). Dave Watson (born November 20, 1961) is a former professional footballer who made 12 appearances for England. He was born in Liverpool and played for Liverpool F.C. , a member of the rail division of the National Transportation Safety Board, said about 60 feet of slack cable was found outside the spool. Investigators have not yet determined what made the cable unravel from the spool. Investigators said the operator at the top station applied the emergency brake or the crash would have been far worse. Praport and her husband, Leon, 83, a Holocaust survivor, were visiting Los Angeles to celebrate their 54th wedding anniversary. He suffered severe head and back injuries in the crash and died Thursday night. The couple, described as adventurous and full of love, decided to take a ride on the 99-year-old railway system that carries riders up and down the steep Bunker Hill Bunker Hill “Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their eyes”; American Revolutionary battle (1775). [Am. Hist.: Worth, 22] See : Battle for 25 cents. A fixture in Los Angeles lore 1. Lore - Object-oriented language for knowledge representation. "Etude et Realisation d'un Language Objet: LORE", Y. Caseau, These, Paris-Sud, Nov 1987. 2. Lore - CGE, Marcoussis, France. Set-based language E-mail: Christophe Dony n. 1. A force or influence equally counteracting another. 2. A weight that acts to balance another; a counterpoise or counterweight. tr.v. Angels Flight cars, named Olivet and Sinai, move in opposite directions up and down the hill. |
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