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...scan. No matter: the glory of re-created victory was undimmed. Over the sunny Virginia meadows marched 2,200 ersatz Revolutionaries. There were French infantry of the Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment in their gleaming white uniforms; authentically ragtag colonials, including the Barnstable Militia of Cape Cod, some in burlap and bandages; and, of course, 750 English redcoats and Hessians, gallant in their mock defeat...
...marry before they did, so she was forced to elope. "We only had 2½ days," she recalls. "We were married on a Tuesday, and I had to be back Friday night to light the candles. My in-laws were very religious." Her husband, who became a manufacturer of burlap bags, died two years ago. "He loved Atlantic City," she says sadly. Also at the Montpelier are Mildred Locke, 60, and Bill Joblin, 64, who are dating but have separate rooms. Through a tragic coincidence, both their spouses died of leukemia, and since they had known each other before...
...developing a tourist attraction near the southern Golan Heights, offered to pay up to $1,000 per alligator to further his own resettlement scheme. Joel Smith, who runs an alligator farm near Gainesville, Fla., packed 120 of the reptiles, from 1 ft. to 10 ft. long, into burlap-lined wooden crates and sent them off on an El Al jet. After arriving, one nosed its way out of its crate in a truck en route to the Golan Heights and fell onto the road, but was corralled by some intrepid journalists in the convoy...
...other overriding problem, and that was dragons. Predictably merciless when they terrorized a village--as was their occasional wont--dragons became much more unpleasant when pestered by heroes with long spears. One such confrontation is depicted in Matthew Robbins' Dragonslayer, the story of a kid who wears burlap clothing but makes good anyway...
...which cruises back to Miami with Dauntless. The $200,000 vessel will be impounded by U.S. Customs and probably sold at Government auction. The owner, who is currently unknown, is not likely to come forth to claim it. The 40,000 lbs. of marijuana-tightly packed in polyethylene and burlap and divided into roughly 45-lb. bales-and the erstwhile smugglers will be turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration. The Colombian gold, which burns at such high heat that it can ruin conventional incinerators, will most probably become free fuel, stoked into the furnaces of Fort Lauderdale...