Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment, nobody could make out what the odd explosions from atop the tower meant. Then men and women began crumpling to the ground, and others ran for cover. On the fourth floor of the tower building, Ph.D. Candidate Norma Barger, 23, heard the noises, looked out and saw six bodies sprawled grotesquely on the mall. At first she thought it was just a tasteless joke. "I expected the six to get up and walk away laughing." Then she saw the pavement splashed with blood, and more people falling. In the first 20 minutes, relying chiefly on the 6-mm. rifle...
...times are changing. Last week a Moslem religious court convicted Ahmed el Osamy, a 60-year-old government worker who ran one of San'a's top boydellos, of being a practicing pederast, and sentenced him to death. Under an ancient Yemeni law, the execution should have been carried out by throwing him from "the highest place"-presumably the minaret of a mosque-but the judges allowed Osamy to be shot instead. "They thought of throwing him from a plane," explained Minister of Education Mohammed el Khalidy, "but that's expensive...
...sideline. Grabowski was held to 11 yds. in four carries, and Southern California's Mike Garrett, the 1965 Heisman Trophy winner, broke loose for a total of 19 yds. On the sideline, All-Star Coach John Sauer was still screaming, "Come on, defense!" as the clock ran out on a score of 38-0-the worst trouncing an All-Star team had taken since the Philadelphia Eagles won by the identical score...
...thalidomide fame, began to wonder how thoroughly and carefully Kligman & Co. could do all that work. A check of the DMSO study showed that Dr. Kligman reported tests on three groups of prison volunteers, but prison records turned up only two groups. In the Kligman report, these tests ran for 24 and 26 weeks, but prison records showed only 16 weeks...
Died. Frank O'Hara, 40, poet, art critic and associate curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; of injuries suffered while standing on the beach when a "beach-buggy" driver, blinded by approaching headlights, swerved and ran over him; on Fire Island...