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...early as the 1960s, Moscow had developed an experimental "gun" designed to shoot chunks of metal at speeds high enough to destroy missiles by sheer impact. The U.S. now has similar "rail guns," but they were not developed until the 1980s...
...solid rock. I figured a fall would butcher me up or kill me one. I just laid down on the side, right on the edge and just hung on. The train went on by, and I walked back to find my dog, and there he lay across that rail. It sure was a sad night...
...woman who declined to give her name straddled the Weeks Fool Bridge's cement guard rail. "I like the wind," she explained...
...prove to be the worst rail disaster in Portugal's history. At 2:40 p.m. last Wednesday, the seven-coach Sud Express, carrying hundreds of Portuguese emigrant workers, pulled out of the main station at Oporto, on Portugal's Atlantic coast, and headed east, destination Paris. Two hours later, a westbound local rumbled out of the Guarda station, some 80 miles southeast of Oporto, and sped toward its final destination, the city of Coimbra. But a fatal miscalculation, which railway officials later attributed to "human error," permitted the two trains to pursue their opposing courses along the same track...
...polyester suits, half boots and swept-back hairdo of his early ministry. A cruel streak used to show up in his arguments then. Today the belligerency is more concealed, although last week's attack on Bishop Desmond Tutu demonstrates that the streak runs deep. Falwell used to rail that homosexuals would spend an eternity in hell. He still condemns homosexuality but now expresses sympathy for those who practice it. Abortionists are not routinely labeled murderers. The less obnoxious Falwell of today draws far fewer protesters. "The liberal establishment has lost its fire," he says...