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...accident was the second potentially disastrous one to involve PBH in as many weeks. On July 22 a PBH van flipped over a Mass. Turnpike guardrail while filled to nearly double legal capacity with 26 children participating in a different program...
...Wilf. I want you to appoint me your official biographer." He tacitly offers his beautiful but dim-witted wife to seal the bargain. Barclay resists this awkwardly staged temptation, but he winds up indebted to Tucker all the same. During a fogbound mountain walk, the author leans on a guardrail that collapses. Pulled to safety by his nemesis, Barclay reluctantly admits: "It seems I owe you my life...
...overwhelming listener support pledged in the fundraiser delivered a badly needed shot in the arm to the staff, but many are still disillusioned and angered by the events of the past months. "You cannot go into an organization, fire one-third of the workforce, drive up to the guardrail of bank ruptcy, and pretend that nothing has happened," news correspondent William Drummond said recently. Drummond, who last month left NPR to teach journalism at the University of California, urged other employees to follow suit and find jobs elsewhere...
...cannot go into an organization, five one-third of the work force, drive up to the guardrail of bankruptcy, and pretend that nothing has happened," Drummond explained, adding that he worries that NPR's shows will he affected by "the primal scare that has been dealt the stall in the past two weeks...
...Fortnight ago, as Sliwa and two other Red Berets drove off six men trying to rape a woman on a Brooklyn elevated platform, Sliwa disarmed a man with a sawed-off shotgun by using a Kung Fu kick to the head. But he himself spun over the guardrail and fell 18 feet into a freight yard. He suffered only heavy bruises and strained muscles...