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...Rolling Hills, CA 91 Bill Ross DE 6-4 210 Se. New Sanyrna Bch., FL 71 Joe Rayan OT 6-2 265 Se. Bresklyn, NY 37 Will Salesby RB 5-11 175 Sr. Cos Cob, CT 44 Paul Sharon FB 5-11 195 Sr. Marlboro, MA 20 Chunk Sharon SE 5-11 160 Se. Waterlee, IA 18 K.C. Smith ADJ 6-2 196 Se. Doorfield, MA 8 Rob Steimberg P-PK 5-10 175 Se. Los Angeles, CA 25 Ken Tarcry CB 6-0 175 Se. Mercer, PA 68 Ben Thie OG 5-11 230 Jr. Carmmoders, CA 38 Craing...
...scroungers have established territorial piles of gleanings. Inside a dumpster filled with old electronics (40? per lb.), three men are crawling around stripping out switches, relays and diodes. In the steel pile (7? per lb.), a swarm is hauling off a transformer cabinet, a 16-in. pipe and a chunk of plate steel left in fanciful cookie-cutter shapes by a plasma-arc cutter. Two men are momentarily baffled by a machined piece. "I don't know what they could have meant to do with this," says one. "It could have been a detector, something to let low-energy...
Efforts quickly were concentrated on separating the four floors of the building, once some 50 feet high but now crunched into about ten feet of rubble. Once a chunk of floor had been lifted away, a team of workers would sift the debris for corpses and personal effects. Some bodies were sandwiched between floors and ceilings and could be retrieved only by cutting off an arm or a leg. Rescuers emerged carrying blood-soaked buckets filled with limbs and tattered flesh. The Marines kept insisting that several comrades might still be found alive in the basement, but such hopes seemed...
...example, in connection with the invasion of Afghanistan. And at least the Soviets can claim Afghanistan is of essential strategic importance to them. Grenada-as Marxist two weeks ago as it is now-hardly constitutes a danger to U.S. security. By invading Grenada, we've lost a large chunk of the moral high ground we held in our ideological duel with the U.S.S.R...
...chunk of the 20th century presents the problem amply, with its abundance of wars, villains, scientific miracles, remappings of the earth. Six decades of speeches, treaties, books, bombs, pills, screams and rockets. What will have mattered in the long run? And what does "mattered" mean? There is the fact, and the idea, and the person who has the idea...