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...Elwin told the Coast Guardsmen that the Seven Seas was a banana trader on her way from Miami to Tampa. Shortly after 10 o'clock the night before, he left the hot crew quarters aft to get some air. As he was leaving, he passed Cuban Crewman Roberto Ramírez, 35, who seemed in a big hurry. "I heard a shot and turned around. Roberto was shooting Hinds, the first mate. I ran upstairs to tell the captain. He was dead, lying crosswise on the bridge." Elwin ran to hide in the chain locker. After two hours...
This is the aim of the Washington mission. Will they succeed in preserving their homes? Will Aliston become too loaded a political issue to ram the project through? Observers will just have to wait and see. At least one thing is certain, however: people with a knife sharpened either for urban renewal or for Mayor Collins will be watching with great interest indeed. And there are a lot of such people around...
...voice of Dr. Syngman Rhee, who in 1948, at the age of 73, had finally realized his dream of six decades by becoming the first freely elected President of a democratic republic in Korea. To the consternation of Washington officials, the doughty little Korean wanted from the start to ram a hard fist in the face of the Communists who had seized the northern half of his land and were looking hungrily south...
...Harvard, Adams studied science. He learned "the advantages of gunpowder in war, above those of the Battering ram" and the nature of the solar system: "The planets are kept in their orbits by two forces acting upon them, that of gravity and that which is called their Centrifugal force...
Mexico's elemental magic was skillfully woven into the museum by its architect, Pedro Ramírez Váquez, 46, a team of 40 specialists, and hundreds of artists in wood and stone. Galleries surround an airy grand patio, roofed by an aluminum umbrella that keeps visitors dry in the season when Tlaloc works overtime. Like an upside-down fountain, a sun-stippled waterfall splashes freely onto the patio floor through the umbrella's center, veiling its only support, a bronze-covered column faced with modern interpretations of the rigid stylizations of pre-Hispanic imagery. Fire spurts...