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Future baseball Hall-of-Famer Steve Carlton looks glum after having a very poor pitching start with the San Francisco Giants. Carlton was signed by the Giants in hopes the veteran would help lead the team to a pennant. After only a few weeks and…

A man reads a daily newspaper outside a rescue mission with his only light source being the neon cross atop the building that feeds and houses dozens of homeless people daily.

Looking more like an Impressionistic painting than a photograph, a county worker lights controlled-burn fires along a levy that is fire-prone.

An inflatable Statue of Liberty failed to completely inflate during a political rally welcoming President Reagan in Anaheim, Calif. Her arm failed to go up, probably because the torch was too heavy.

A mother and father hug, clutching a portrait of their daughter, who was missing (believed abducted). They met the press at the last place she was seen to make a public plea to help find her.

An illegal Mexican alien gives the thumbs-up to his family as he is carried across the Rio Grande River by a 'burro' (a human taxi paid to carry people across). The man is leaving Juarez, Mexico (far side) for El Paso, Texas.

Guns, money and drugs lay on the ground after a drug suspect jumped out of a second- story window during a police raid.

An elderly transient man lay dying in a downtown Los Angeles street after he was struck by a car (hit-and-run). Although many people witnessed the accident, only one man came to his aid. The good Samaritan prayed over him with Rosary beads.

Overgrown with weeds, a once-stately Florida mansion lies vacant from neglect.

A fisherman reflects on a lifestyle gone by in front of the now-deserted fishing cabin once used by Babe Ruth.