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...little else, Belushi easily makes the transition on to film. His character, Bluto, is the frat's resident gross-out and chief hell-raiser. He saves his best leers for the appropriate times: stuffing his fat face prior to a cafeteria food fight, or precariously balanced on a ladder peering into a room of half-naked sorority girls...
...lacocca thought he had a better idea. An eager young sales manager in the 1950s, he figured he would pep up a dull convention of 1,100 Ford salesmen by proving in a live demonstration that if he dropped an egg from a 10-ft-high ladder onto Ford's new crash-padded dashboard, the egg would not break. He was wrong. Until last week, that was one of the very few times that lacocca came close to having egg on his face. After 32 years with Ford, the plain-spoken son of an Italian immigrant was a Horatio...
...noon one day last week, 10,000 bees droned into Montpelier and settled under the eaves near the Governor's office. "It's probably just a delegation to thank Governor Snelling," joked Beekeeper Emile ("Beaver") Couillard, 65, as he climbed a ladder 50 ft. to reach the gathering insects. Couillard, who likes bees as much as any other industrious Vermonter, took the swarm home to his hives, where he expects them to produce about $150 worth of honey this year-enough to take the sting...
...Bank. Says Emmanual Sivan, a professor of Islamic history at Jerusalem's Hebrew University: "For the generation of Israelis in their 20s, the occupation has been the natural order of things; this is certainly bad. They have learned that the Arabs are at the lower end of the ladder, which creates a vision of each other that is not conducive to coexistence. I'm not worried about whether or not we can hold on to the territories. But the price we pay worries me. Here we are, a democratic society, holding another society hostage." Uri Avneri, editor...
...Rescue Co. is a special part of the Cambridge Fire Department. It covers the whole city instead of a certain area like the engine and ladder companies, and it responds to a wide variety of calls in addition to fires. The men on Rescue are regular firefighters who have emergency medical technician (EMT) training and have volunteered for Rescue duty...