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...Linahan, has a squint in his eye, and Patcheen is lame in his heel, or the mad Mulrannies were driven from California and they lost in their wits"--not a decent man in the lot. Since Pegeen is a romantic, brainy, and spirited girl (well played by Helena Carroll with the right sort of peppery vigor), the local manpower shortage has made her "the fright of seven townlands for my biting tongue" out of sheer frustration...
...moderates. "What about your Oliver Cromwell?" he shouted at British reporters. "Was he a moderate? No. He was a fanatic." Then, gesturing wildly, he exclaimed: "I'm ready for prison any time, whether it be Makarios' cell in the Seychelles or Napoleon's St. Helena. Even your Winston Churchill was an extremist at one point...
...Helena, Mont., when police picked up a 15-year-old boy for auto theft, the lad said: "I'm not a juvenile delinquent. I don't take hub caps and that kind of stuff. I just steal cars...
Tracking Far. Electronic tracking told the rest of the story: Atlas coursed over an ocean at 16,000 m.p.h.. past the equator, past Ascension island, to a point near St. Helena, where the exiled and imprisoned Napoleon died, until, only 1,200 miles from the African coast and only 30 minutes after launching, its nose cone shot down into the South Atlantic. The distance: a fully programed 6,300 statute miles, equal to the span between Denver and Peking, or between an Alaskan launching site and any major target in the Northern Hemisphere. Thus, after only 17 months...
...Ferry. Still, Harold was willing. He was 23 and had been looking for a good break in the music business ever since his daddy, who piloted a Mississippi River ferry out of Helena, Ark., taught him how to play the guitar. Some records he had out were bombs, so he was happy to let Agent Seat call the shots, even if it meant a handle like Twitty...