Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Downpour turned to deluge, dumping two inches of rain in 30 minutes -- apparently enough to collapse the structure housing the store into a murderous heap of concrete and metal. Dozens of people were crushed or trapped in the rubble. One wall tumbled outward, killing a woman sitting in a car parked in front of the store. Anthony Padilla, a photographer for the Brownsville Herald, witnessed the scene from across the street. "The entire storefront, the windows just exploded out," he said. "People just covered their heads, kind of ducked down, and in the next instant the whole thing came down...
...small number of Soviets in Suifenhe help manage the rail traffic. Vladimir Dudin, 38, lives for days, sometimes weeks, at a time in a converted refrigerator car on a siding at the Suifenhe train station. He has a tiny black-and-white television that is not powerful enough to pick up Soviet broadcasts; he has to settle for such fare as the U.S.-made series Little House on the Prairie dubbed in Chinese...
...Harry may shoot or squash or harpoon the odd malefactor. He may find fellowship with Patricia Clarkson, a Sondra Locke look-alike who plays a prying TV reporter. And he does get to drive in the big chase scene, in which a remote-controlled toy car with explosives attached hounds Harry through the town's roller-coaster streets. True Californians, he and his partner never think to get out and run for cover. But then, this picture's soul is located 400 miles south, in the Los Angeles movie industry, where metaphorical backstabbing is business as usual...
Turned on by old cars that turn on, too? If so, then the "Motoring Memories: An Antique Vehicle Meet" car show is what you've been looking for. At Codman House in Linclon, the Meet will present the history of trucks and a display of old cars, trucks, and motorcycles. And, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Craig Ball Trio will perform Dixieland Jazz. Admission is $3, and children under 12 get in for $1. Call 259-8843 for more information...
...Athens, was setting out for work in his bulletproof Ford Granada last week, the morning calm was shattered by an explosion. A bomb planted in a Toyota sedan parked near Nordeen's home had been detonated by remote control as he drove by. The blast hurled Nordeen's car across the street; the captain's decapitated body was found more than 100 ft. away in the yard of an abandoned house...