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...single track tunnel, blasted out of solid rock, about a quarter of a mile long, curving slightly. Using shovels they had brought with them, they dug into the railroad bed. When their shovels rang too loudly they went down on their knees and finished digging with their hands. Primer cord connected two charges so they would explode as one, and caps were taped to both rails. Then word was passed to head back for the whaleboat...
...Miraculous Medal originated in Paris, where it was designed according to specifications which St. Catherine Laboure said were given to her by the Virgin Mary in an apparition on Nov. 27, 1830. When Joseph Skelly was a boy in Germantown his mother hung one of the medals on a cord around his neck, as she had with his seven brothers and three sisters. Many years later, when Father Skelly undertook the job of raising funds to build St. Joseph's College at Princeton, N.J., he slipped one of the medals into each letter asking for contributions. Impressed...
...three pairs of pants and two jackets are ample for ordinary use. After he has seen some thousands of American students sporting cord and berserks jackets and grey final trousers from London to Naples, the traveler who wears this uniform will wish he were a little less stereotyped...
...trapped, 44 people got out. A 14-year-old girl named Beverly Clark yanked an emergency cord, opened a side door, and escaped. Other men & women were pushed or pulled out through broken windows, ran off white and bleeding, some with their hair and clothes on fire. One man pulled red-hot metal strips out of a side window with his bare hands, tumbled out crying in agony. But in three minutes the whole car was enveloped in fire; the trucker was dead in his cab and the screaming had stopped...
...Keefe favors fantasies like On Borrowed Time and dramas like The Silver Cord. "What we need are strong, straight, logical dramatic issues. If a man is grappling with his problems, the camera can go right...