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Benny drove up in his Mercedes. As the car pulled away, Teenager could see Gigi and Victor with their heads against the seat backs. Teenager began to think of a place to get rid of the guns. Then, like a bored cat, he began to lick the blood from his...
Meanwhile, Argentina seemed perfectly willing to face the prospect of all-out war. In coastal cities in the southern portion of the country, blackouts had become common as a precaution against air raids, and schoolchildren drilled for attacks by crouching beneath their desks. The government appealed for "patriotic" financial contributions...
At each airport the war had swiftly overtaken any trace of civilian life. The camouflaged C-130 cargo planes were dropping like slow-moving drone bees onto the runways, their engines still running as they loaded up for unknown destinations. Despite reports of heavy British bombing of the runway at...
Stockbroker Gary Vance Lewellyn, 33, often told friends, and for a while the curly-haired financier from Humboldt, Iowa (pop. 4,794), made his dreams come true. Lewellyn, who ran a brokerage company in Des Moines, wore custom-made suits that he bought in batches. He lived with his wife...
The most intriguing-some might say mind-boggling-success stories in the home-video game are smaller companies such as Activision and Imagic, which manufacture cartridges (at an average cost of $27) for machines produced by the biggies. "The magnitude of the growth has caught everybody by surprise," says Activision...