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...Carlos de la Rapita, Spain, July 11,1978. An overloaded 38-ton tank truck carrying 1,518 cu. ft. of combustible propylene gas skidded around a bend in the road and slammed into a wall, sending 100-ft.-high flames into a campsite where 780 tourists were eating, sunbathing and swimming. The death toll...
...humor. President Reagan, the Polish leader said, deserved "a medal of achievement" from COMECON, the Soviet-led trading community, because Reagan's policy of sanctions against Poland had resulted in greater economic cooperation among Moscow's allies. Jaruzelski made it clear that he was not about to bend to pressure from Washington. Said he: "Reckoning that we will pay with concessions for favors is not realistic...
...laude degree is almost meaningless because the vast majority of grades in courses of Harvard are B-minus or better anyway. The Faculty would be well-advised to up the minimum average grade for an honors degree to at least a B. If should also be prepared to bend these grade requirements for those students who write exceptional senior theses, often the most significant academic experience in an undergraduate's career...
Fortunately, comics were spinning off characters long before T.V. and movies, and Supergirl, who actually dates back to the 1950s, must have seemed like the perfect candidate for celluloid incarnation. Reeve, who has elsewhere proven that he can act as easily as bend steel bars, would certainly have demanded a salary several orders of magnitude greater than the cost of a nubile unknown. A second coast-to-coast star search would generate gobs of favorable publicity. And the same people who enjoyed watching Charlie's Angels or Linda Carter bounce around as Wonder Woman are a sure...
...days later, while I was leafing through a collection of short stories, the following passage stood out. He selected a part of black plastic frames an much thick, with hinged corner that stuck out from the cheek bones like a horse's blinders, pieces heavy enough to bend the ear. They were a kind of mask that hid half his face...