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State of Siege. After another session the following morning, the talks broke down. Next thing anyone knew, gunfire briefly rang through Vientiane and a group of rightist army officers calling itself the Revolutionary Committee of the National Army was on the radio, announcing that it had seized power. Their leader: General Kouprasith Abhay, who has been fighting the neutralists and leftists for years. As commander of the Vientiane military district Kouprasith was the top soldier under Rightist Boss Phoumi, but also acquired a great deal of power...
...short-bought their first newspaper. It did not seem much of a buy. The Volkischer Beo-bachter (People's Observer), was a slender Munich biweekly with barely 7,000 subscribers and not a pfennig in the till. Its new publisher, one Adolf Hitler, made it a daily and rang up a blustering new masthead slogan: "Combat Organ of the National Socialist Movement of Germany...
Predictably, truck sales climbed to records under Iacocca's accelerator, and he soon moved on to become the car marketing manager for the Ford Division. One promotion followed another-until the telephone rang one November morning in 1960. It was Henry Ford II, and he wanted Iacocca to drop over. Less than an hour later,Iacocca drove back to division headquarters as its new boss...
Seven o'clock came, then eight, finally nine. When it was almost ten, the Atwood and Holmes' phones rang nearly simultaneously, and Mr. Atwood and Mr. Holmes received identical messages: "Dad, we're going to be married right away...
...solid object, it can be made to vibrate all over if it is hit hard enough. This behavior was predicted more than 80 years ago, but it was first detected with certainty after the Chile quake, when new instruments were ready and watching for it. The whole earth rang like a great, silent bell for two weeks. Its fundamental note had a period of about 54 minutes, which is more than 20 octaves below middle C, vastly too low for human ears to hear...