Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truck, veering to one side and running a parallel course, also rammed into a mass of people. The tow cable between the trucks acted as a scythe, severing bodies through the middle. More than 100 dancers and onlookers died immediately, including James Driscoll, 20, a Peace Corps volunteer from Buffalo, N.Y., who had already served 16 months in Togo and had signed up for a second tour of duty. At least 300 people were injured, including four Peace Corps girls. The truck drivers ran away, but were later arrested...
...BUFFALO, the biggest unit in the system, has 11,000 students. It grew out of the underfinanced private University of Buffalo, still occupies that school's overcrowded 178-acre campus in North Buffalo, but will move to a $131 million, 1,000-acre campus designed to handle 27,500 students. Buffalo's School of Pharmacy leads the nation in pharmaceutical research expenditures. Its School of Medicine has performed spectacular research in studying ways to enable dogs to breathe water, and the med school's Dr. Robert Guthrie is the developer of a simple test to spot brain...
...nice touch of local color, thought Director Ron Winston, as he lined up the water buffalo. The bewildered beast was assigned to loll around while Hero Hugh O'Brian, 37, went tearing by with two battle companions in a scene from something called Ambush Bay, filming on location in the Philippines. O'Brian swashbuckled past on cue, but then the buffalo ad-libbed by charging the hero, tearing through his combat jacket with its horns, fracturing two of his ribs and leaving him out cold in an irrigation ditch. What a break. As soon as O'Brian...
...that girl prancing on the hood of a Rolls, strutting along a beach on ice skates, fording a stream on a water buffalo, serving tea in a space suit, climbing a tree in a cocktail dress...
Scouts and college representatives called Peters frequently last spring. Ten colleges, including West Point, Wake Forest, and Yale, contacted him. Harvard alumni in Buffalo bought him a plane ticket to Cambridge "to have a look around...