Word: cannoneering
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...riderless stallion, the orange fire truck rolled slowly toward the cemetery in Panama City last week, bearing a flag-draped coffin that was topped by a distinctive canteen, bush hat and gun holster. At the grave, a 21-cannon salute boomed as the coffin was lowered amid a torrent of flowers. Thus did Panama bid farewell to its strongman, Omar Torrijos Herrera, who was killed when his plane crashed four days earlier...
...Broadway hit in years. Then a former student of his, played by Christopher Reeve, 28, turns up at his converted windmill in East Hampton, N.Y., with a murderously good play. In a plot with more twists than a Chubby Checker concert, Bruhl conspires with his wife (Dyan Cannon) to take over the manuscript by doing in its author. During the filming of one scene, Cannon leaned toward Caine and whispered that he reminded her of her former husband, Cary Grant. Replied Caine: "I hate being taken for granted, but never mind being taken for Grant...
...McNamara encouraged them to enlist with his "new standard" programs?mental and physical standards were lowered in 1966, supposedly to help blacks and other minorities get ahead. Alas, it merely coaxed them more quickly into the freshman class of cannon fodder. Fulton is a little off the point: the injustices of recruiting for Viet Nam involved class more than race. It was the lower-middle and lower classes, regardless of race, who went to shed blood, while their betters observed from society's good seats...
...union did so in a rousing voice vote of acclamation even though Williams, who has beaten prison despite three federal indictments, now faces a fourth. He is accused of attempting to bribe Nevada Senator Howard Cannon in 1979 to delay deregulation of the trucking industry...
...latest charges stem from "Operation Pendorf," an FBI investigation into labor racketeering. According to the indictment handed down by a Chicago federal grand jury, Williams, Chicago Insurance Broker Allen Dorfman and three others told Cannon that if he would delay consideration of a bill designed to deregulate trucking rates and routes, he would be allowed to buy some valuable Nevada property owned by the Teamsters pension fund. The deal never came off. Cannon voted for a weakened version of the trucking deregulation bill, which passed. The Justice Department has told the Senator that he will not be indicted...