Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World War II 7.35-cal. Italian army rifle hidden in the washroom, came out firing. The rifle jammed after one shot, but the bullet killed one ban dit, tore through his body and critically wounded another. The third got away - with DiMaggio's money. The papers all ran big stories on the East Side Earp, as one reporter called him, but Charlie was fed up with public ity. "Patting you on the back," snapped Charlie, "doesn't put butter on my ta ble. It doesn't feed the family." And nothing seems to keep bandits...
...face." No smoke or noise carried to the surface. When Aincham raced out, a worker topside asked: "Is something wrong?" The only outside warning of the disaster came from instruments in an underground command post 220 ft. away, where four Air Force crewmen immediately donned masked survival suits and ran out to investigate...
...broke away, and once again a British-backed regional federation was in tatters.- The flaw was a clash of peoples, of religions, of languages, of cultures. Put in the simplest terms, the Malays-largely rural, uneducated and unenterprising -feared domination by the Chinese-aggressive, technically able and urban -who ran just about everything except the bureaucracy. It was just a matter of time before the ugly jealousies brought trouble to a climax. The federation was given the coup de grace by the very man who had conceived it, Prime Minister Tunku (Prince) Abdul Rahman, 62, an aristocratic, Cambridge-educated lawyer...
...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, he heard the engine stop. Then nothing-for 16 hours-until he heard the patrol boat's siren wail...
...expected, and in the last place it wanted to see him: in the pages of the Press. There, in a long interview, the voyager told all: how he had been washed overboard six times, dodged sharks and dolphin in his small craft, suffered hallucinations of ghosts. The Press also ran color photos of the newsman-sailor, tanned, bearded and red-eyed. The trip had turned into a clear scoop for the Press, and the paper savored its revenge. The turnabout, however, had been engineered not by the Press, but by Cleveland TV station WEWS, which had also dispatched a team...