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...Tootsie" to his parents, "Roosevelt's butcher" to the Nazis, "Taskmaster" to his hard-driven aides in Viet Nam and "an American hero" to President Ford. From his emergence as a tank commander in World War II to his death last week of lung-cancer complications at 59, Creighton Abrams Jr. won respect even from enemies abroad and antiwar activists at home...
...high stumps with protrusions that extended like arms, curving formations that looked like the neck and head of a swan, and linked tubes that resembled a string of sausages in a butcher's shop. But the size and shape of these flows indicated that the molten rock had not been forced out under tremendous pressure. On the contrary, it seemed to have simply peaked from the interior of the earth through cracks created as the earth's surface was stretched. Explained Bryan: "Like a cobblestone street, the earth's crust can be pulled apart very easily...
...item of the day: the legendary Butcher album. When the "Yesterday and Today" album first came out, it pictured The Beatles dressed as butchers and surrounded by wooden babies and chopped meat. Quite grotesque--too grotesque for the public taste in 1967. Capitol pasted new covers on the unreleased albums; mint-condition models of the original butchers are like two-dollar bills. Fans scurry up, hands reach out to touch the record, Instamatics and Nikons flash at the cover. A fellow in whitened jeans and a workshirt quietly offers $200--the stipulated minimum bid. There are no other takers...
...year's imprisonment (later changed to probation), her hatred of Nazis grew even greater. She and her law-student husband, whose father died at Auschwitz, began to compile dossiers on unpunished German war criminals. In 1971, Beate launched almost singlehanded a campaign to catch and arrest "the Butcher of Lyon," ex-SS Captain Klaus Barbie, who had fled to Peru, then Bolivia. Released from jail several months ago, he is now free in Bolivia...
From his shop, Butcher Mike Arendt looked out across Main Street to the aging building that serves as headquarters for the town's striking teachers. Then he lowered his voice and measured his words carefully: "If it's not settled soon, the townspeople are getting ready to take things into their own hands...