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...visual disarray of America. In the process, he saw things that a more acclimatized vision might miss. In one picture from 1947, the immense web work of the Queensboro Bridge is played against the finer lattice of the superstructure around some storage tanks. Then diagonal ranks of metal pipe chimneys lead the eye to a surprise in the lower left corner: tiny figures on a dwarfed residential street...
...Paschal organization called the Ambassadors, a now disbanded group of 29 top seniors assigned to patrolling the campus and encouraging others to attend classes. Legion members, mostly wealthy youngsters from prominent families, prowled less well-to-do neighborhoods at night, firing shots at one student's home, exploding a pipe bomb on another's car. A fire bomb tossed at a black student's house failed to hurt anyone only because it fell short and ignited in the front yard. Said a classmate: "These pillars of our community (were) doing worse things than we will ever do in our lives...
Putting companies together is nothing new for De Benedetti. He earned a degree in engineering from Turin's Polytechnic in 1958 and ten years later took over as manager of his father's flexible-metal-pipe plant, which had just 80 employees. During the next five years, the younger De Benedetti expanded the firm by buying up small, mostly unprofitable companies. By 1976 his company was Italy's largest producer of car components and had annual sales of more than $46 million...
...year as a fugitive ended quietly one night last week when several dozen agents surrounded him in Rossville, Ga. When he was apprehended, Pierce was sporting two pistols in his belt and a derringer in one pocket. Police found automatic weapons, a crossbow and arrows, fragmentation grenades and a pipe bomb in the van he was driving. Now serving the two-year term for counterfeiting in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Pierce also faces questioning in murder and armed-robbery cases...
...that the culprit "with high probability" was water. Either by accident or design, they said, a large quantity of water had been poured into the holding tank, reacting with the MIC to produce enough heat and pressure to pop the valve. One possible source: a utility station where a pipe marked "water" is located next to one marked "nitrogen" (used to pressurize the tank). Most likely, the investigators suggested, someone connected the wrong pipe to the tank, allowing as much as 240 gal. of water to mix with...