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...though you believe he saw what he saw--witness the heads of the Gloucester fishermen appearing from the wave that hides their dory in Kissing the Moon, 1904, or the breaking wave on the rocks in West Point, Prout's Neck, 1900, that flings up an S curve of foam that might be a sinuous white torso: the ghost of a female presence, a water witch...
After Iowa, David passed through a number of jobs. One was as a supervisor at the Addison, Illinois, factory of Foam Cutting Engineers, a company that also employed his father. For a while in 1978 one of his subordinates was Ted, who had left Montana briefly in the hope of earning some money. According to investigators, at the factory Ted began dating a female supervisor. (A fellow employee told TIME it was a single date.) After their relationship went nowhere, he responded by composing crude limericks about her and posting them around the plant. When David ordered him to stop...
...Reinhard and Zarate stuffed the 90-lb. corpse, curled in its fetal position, into a backpack and climbed down after sunset. Eventually they were able to load Juanita onto the back of a mule, her body wrapped in blue foam sleeping pads to insulate it from the animal's body heat. She made the final leg of the trip to the city of Arequipa in the baggage hold of an overnight bus. A second expedition recovered the other two bodies...
...that we were prepared to come to its aid. Afterward, Scowcroft called Cheney. Bandar was coming over, he said, and we were to give him another dose of reality. On his arrival at Cheney's office, Bandar played his usual Americanized, jaunty fighter-pilot role, drinking coffee from a foam cup and stirring it with a gold pen. Ordinarily, we addressed each other in terms bordering on the obscene, with my printable favorites including "Bandar the Magnificent" and "Bandar, you Arab Gatsby," while he called me "Milord." This day we did not kid around...
...Denny's, he pays $380 a month for a small room that he has made into a home: a microwave, a tabletop refrigerator, a coffee maker, a hot plate, a vcr, a collection of 28 beer steins and an aquarium with tropical fish complement a ragged sofa with foam spilling out of the cushions and a filthy shag carpet. "I want to be left alone," says Doherty, whose back was injured in a tank accident in the Army. "When I come home from work and I've had a bad day, I watch The Lion King," he says. "It makes...