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...Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 72, to learn that somebody out there was paying attention to his appeal last month for funds to aid "the poor of the world." Just three weeks later, a winning ticket in New York State's monthly lottery was pulled from the barrel plainly marked "Bishop Sheen World Poor, Rochester, N.Y." One of 1,445 winners, the ticket will be worth between $150 and $100,000, depending on future drawings...
...gunners put it. As the Viet Cong, 30 and 40 at a time, tried to sprint across the strip, the big howitzer shells exploded in their midst. The gunners fired off 575 rounds during the battle, blistering the paint on the lone gun's barrel. Helicopter gunships laced the Viet Cong from above with their mini-guns, and Air Force jets made one screaming run after another, dropping anti-personnel bombs. The few Viet Cong who survived the lethal gauntlet to reach the strip's west side were caught in a murderous crossfire between the Special Forces camp...
...crude oil, hauls its purchases with its own barge fleet, one of the Ohio River's largest, or by means of 5,000 miles of Ashland-owned pipeline. Critics accuse the company of being oil-shy, but Rexford Blazer denies the charge. "We have never run short one barrel of crude oil in our life," says he, pointing out that Ashland currently receives 40,000 barrels a day more than it needs, sells the surplus to other refineries...
...girl did not want to give up the horse, but the prince knew just what to do. He had her publicly nailed up in a barrel, which the townspeople rolled right out into the river. Eventually some boys found it on the beach, opened it up, and there was the girl, as pretty as ever and, by now, head over heels in love with the prince. So she got a job in the palace kitchen making omelets-which became somewhat com plicated after some witches showed up and hexed 3,000 eggs into hatching...
...Vistula River in 1944 and folded its arms while the Nazis bloodily put down the Warsaw uprising, and when Stalin refused to allow the U.S. even to airlift supplies to the dying Polish Resistance, it was obvious, says Kennan, that Stalin meant to swallow Poland, "lock, stock and barrel...