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...beginning, the guerrillas were less than efficient. Central Bank President Gonzalo Carias Pineda and five other hostages managed to hide in a broom closet for six hours before being forced out by lack of air. One prisoner escaped on the first morning by bolting through the front door; two others climbed out a bathroom window...
...vengeful toward others. He has had conservative Columnist George F. Will in to lunch alone twice, and Columnist Patrick Buchanan once. He has gone to dinner at the home of Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Co., who many right-wingers think hovers over Washington on a broom...
...complete was his transformation that he often manned a broom and swept out the large green-and-yellow revival tent in the church compound. Says Elder James DeGolyer: "It was very surprising to see him being such a serving kind of person, so willing to take guidance from people younger than himself...
...some of his own finds, including the famed skull 1470 that revealed Homo habilis, the first true man, to be more than 2 million years old. Always giving credit where it is due, Leakey goes on to describe the earlier findings in South Africa of Raymond Dart and Robert Broom, who unearthed human ancestors more than 3 million years old, as well as to discuss Don Johanson's dramatic discovery of Lucy, the famous four-foot-tall Ethiopian who walked upright at least 3 million years ago. The find, Leakey notes, confirms that man's ancestors walked erect...
...almost everyone in Churchill has a personal anecdote to prove it. Says John Ingebrigtson, 62, a former shopkeeper who has lived in town for half a century: "I remember once one got into our back porch, where we kept our meat, and Mother chased him out with a broom." Al Chartier, 37, a local guide, recalls sitting on the banks of a nearby river this September while his wife and three daughters took a chilly swim. Suddenly he glimpsed a polar bear lying in the grass on the opposite shore watching them. Chartier quietly fetched his gun. But the bear...