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...Beirut in the cool Lebanon mountains, has long been a favorite summer resort, both for wealthy Lebanese and Arabs from neighboring lands. It was there last week that the advancing Syrians met their first real resistance. On Tuesday, reports Wynn, the town was battle-scarred. Along the Beirut-Damascus highway, corrugated shutters of shop after shop were curled up from the shelling. Many of the cypress trees that once sheltered vacationing strollers had been smashed to splinters. Testimony to the Palestinian resistance was provided by three burned-out tanks that lay beside the road...
...visit his barber. After getting a haircut, he told his wife, he planned to call on a friend whose mother had died recently. Torres never had a chance to offer his condolences. Roughly 38 hours after he left home, his body was found beside a bridge on a highway 60 miles from the Argentine capital. The former President had been shot three times in the head...
Religious Faith. But none of that could dispel the pain. Said Housewife Mary Lawrence: "I feel for parents who have no religious faith. What can you do if you love a child and then lose him? You have to take your strength from somewhere else." Said State Highway Patrolman Dan Gust: "I've seen a lot of accidents. But when you get right down to it, you get hurt just the same as anybody else." Gust's son, Steven, 17, had died in the crash...
Srouji joined the Tennessean in 1969 as a copy editor but left a year later because her husband, S.H. Srouji, a state highway engineer, did not like her working at night. A year and a half ago, she sold two articles about the nuclear safety controversy to Nashville! magazine. It was when Aurora asked her to write a book on the subject that she reestablished her contact with Olson, now assigned to the FBI's Oklahoma City office, where he helped conduct the bureau's Silkwood investigation. Over a two-month period, Srouji testified, she was allowed...
...miracle was not achieved by the likely nominees for the innovative-entrepreneur success spot, the McDonald brothers, a hardworking pair who ran a Southern California highway restaurant where they turned out tasty hamburgers by a quick, then-unique process--the assembly line. Instead, McDonald's became what it is today by means of a basic capitalistic technique known as "stealing somebody's else's idea...