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...pistol and two grenades aboard the plane. Ali Atwa, a member of the Shi'ite team who did not board and was subsequently arrested in Athens, told officials that the weapons had been wrapped in fiber glass to avoid detection. Security experts, who say that fiber glass cannot foil X-ray machines, believe it is more likely that the arms had been planted on the plane by an accomplice, perhaps an airport worker...
...swooned as if a god had descended to earth. Another Hollywood deity ambled onto the Palais stage, heard himself introduced as "Mon General James Stewart" and watched a couple of thousand people in evening clothes stand up to cheer and salute. Earlier, gallant as always, Stewart had served as foil for June Allyson's sparkle at a press conference celebrating the screening of their 1954 film The Glenn Miller Story. Cher, the star of Mask, impressed everyone by winning a prize for best actress and, earlier, by arriving with 25 suitcases and a trampoline...
...keeping my hopes up. Tinfoil is supposed to be pretty effecting against nuclear radiation, so I'm convering my windows. Once I figure out how to rig up a microwave, we won't even need the foil. I just hope the MBTA keeps on running...
...save $200 a month on motel and food bills with his new $22,500 Double Eagle Windjammer. Dave Kahlig and his wife Mitch of Fort Recovery, Ohio, have yet to install a microwave in their 66- in., $11,000 Double Eagle sleeper. But they have a refrigerator and cook foil-wrapped meats on the truck's engine between the red-hot turbo pipes. "It takes about 10 to 15 miles to cook a hamburger," says Mitch, "60 for a chicken. Once we lost some turkey steaks when we hit a pothole near Detroit...
...Branimit Zivkovic, Harvard fencing coach. "An athlete has used a piece of equipment for a long time, and knows what it will do for him." He tells the story of a Harvard fencer who could note the difference made by a layer of paint on the handle of the foil...