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...Communist drive down the center of Korea's waist broke all contact between the Eighth Army and General Almond's X Corps, sprawled out over northeastern Korea. At the Changjin reservoir, Major General Oliver Prince Smith's 1st Marine Division had made a vain try to cut in behind the Chinese attacking the Eighth. Now Smith's men were attacked by ten Communist divisions, which threw an iron ring around the reservoir...
...amount of taxes due has swelled from 27,910 at the end of 1979 to 53,440 now. A number of experts believe that there should be not only more prosecutions but stiffer penalties. "A touch of jail for the Harvard graduate is a strong deterrent," says Lincoln Almond, the U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island...
Professor of Government Sidney Verta served " little Almond Joys, Kit Kats, and chocolate-covered wafers;" John Kenneth Galbraith Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, offered lollipops; Dean of Freshman Henry Moses provided Suo-Caps and Nestle. Crunch Bars: and Professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould distributed Reese's peanut-butter caps...
...suggests that "a disgruntled employee in the production chain" was the more likely culprit. Whatever the method and motive, the killer clearly knew what he was doing. In each case, the red half of the contaminated capsule was discolored and slightly swollen. When opened, the capsules emitted the telltale almond odor of cyanide; the poison was present in quantities thousands of times the usual fatal dose. Says Police Chief Carl Sostak of Winfield, Ill., home of one victim: "Apparently a very sophisticated and very malicious person is at large who had to spend a lot of time...
...trying to block the release of his latest martial-arts movie, Lone Wolf, with a well-aimed legal kick to its producers' fiscal throat. Carradine agreed to play the heavy in the film on condition that 1) he would not kill the woman, in this case sultry, almond-eyed Barbara Carrera; 2) he would not die; and 3) he would not get licked in hand-to-hand combat with the film's "good guy," the bearded, karate-flick regular, Chuck Norris, 40. But after the final editing he was chopped down by Norris. So he sued to protect...