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...Hail the Conquerors
...understand what was happening then. Kennedy rode through multitudes in an open car. He stood on the quay at New Ross from where his great-grandfather sailed for Boston, hugging and laughing with anybody who came, even shabby, unshaven figures who emerged unsteadily from the pubs to hail the visitor...
...Winnsboro, S.C., had no such luck. Ulese Bell, 52, and his son Ulese Jr. dived under a bed as the funnel approached. But Maude Bell, 48, wanted to see the storm's awful majesty. "She just walked out of the room and into the den to watch the hail fall," says Ulese. "Within three or four seconds, wham! The house just collapsed." Ulese dug his wife of 28 years out of the rubble, but she never regained consciousness...
...avant-garde Argentine writer (best-known novel: Hopscotch) and political activist, who supported the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions; of a heart attack; in Paris. Cortázar's subtle humor and sinister sense of fantasy, combined with the themes of identity and reincarnation, moved a fellow novelist to hail him as "one of the greatest creators of Latin American literature...
...minutes of the photographer's time is worth at most a dollar, and that's assuming a wage scale more appropriate to junior partners in a New York law firm. Oh, all right, throw in the insurance necessary to cover the possibility that the camera will explode in a hail of plastic shrapnel. That's still only $5, and a $20 overhead strains credulity, especially since you're already paying for overhead with the $665 College Facilities...