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...come out. "I want the s.o.b. to feel some pain," special agent Steve Searles tells two cops with pump shotguns. "I want you to put some hurt on him." Nothing happens when Searles fires his pistol. Nor when he bangs loudly on the porch with a baseball bat. He tries pepper spray, yelling, "Hey, hey, come on out of there! You can't stay there...
...unforgettable first meeting with 'The Chief.' I had already been told that Dr. Carrier was a genius and that his talents lay in the field of science and invention rather than in operation and finance. All the same I wasn't prepared for what happened...right off the bat Dr. Carrier made it clear he had a dim view of bankers...I remember so well the ring in his voice when he said to me that day: 'We will not do less research and development work,' 'We will not discharge the people we have trained'; and 'We will all work...
...Right off the bat, they may be getting a lower base salary," he said. "[But] you could end up doing better than your wildest dreams...
DIED. BOB KANE, 83, creator of the comic-book icon Batman; in Los Angeles. Kane brought the character to life in 1939, inspired by the masked hero Zorro, a silent movie called The Bat and a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's batlike flying machine. The strength and creativity Kane bestowed on his superhero allowed Batman to leap from comics to a 1960s TV series to the movies (see Eulogy, below...
...PITTSBURGH, PA., the world's scariest bat mitzvah party was held. The Titanic-theme event featured 12-ft. smokestacks at the buffet table, a steerage section for children and a giant photo of the honoree's face superimposed on the body of--no, not a Klansman--Kate Winslet...