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Figuring that they could frighten the mutineers into submission with lots of noise, the British cut loose with a predawn barrage of blank charges over Colito barracks. As the sleepy mutineers ducked for cover, helicopters fluttered off the flight deck and dropped 60 combat-ready Royal Marine Commandos onto the rebel base...
Burr B, with its staid academic blackboards, was an ideal arena for Goodman's irreverence. He swore freely, in Manhattan monotone, and looked up in blank surprise at the reactions he evoked. What words are taboo among confidential friends? He opened himself to the audience, it seemed, confiding his bisexuality, his extra-marital philandering: "I am very sexy," he told us. He reassured the skeptics with benevolent ridicule: "So she gets pregnant," he conceded with a friendly grin. "So what's so terrible...
...from an effort to use archaeology to prove the existence of God. Even to try, he believes, would be to "confuse fact with faith, history with holiness, science with religion." To him, the Bible is an indispensable guide as he goes about his work of filling blank areas on the world's historical maps and bringing lost nations to vivid life...
...assassin's bullet, photographers from both Dallas papers recorded his murder with a clarity and drama that television cameras on the scene missed. For the News, Photographer Jack Beers snapped a picture, a split second before the killing, that showed Jack Ruby's gun aimed point-blank at Oswald. Times Herald Photographer Bob Jackson caught the actual moment of shooting and the grimace of pain on Oswald's face, the looks of horrified disbelief on the faces of his police escorts...
...What's happening to us? Are we lying to each other? Are we splitting with the party? I am a man, dammit, and I need the truth!" At local party headquarters he tries to get his flight status restored, instead gets the run-around from a circle of blank-faced bureaucrats squatting under a statue of their leader...