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...than 170 injured, I was sitting in the ninth car of the Colonial contemplating moving to a non-smoking car further ahead. It was in those cars, near the front of the train, that the 15 lost their lives. Earlier, I had moved from an uncomfortable car nearer the rear of the train...
...averaging 115 m.p.h., Voyager was beset by storms that battered the plane and severely jostled both pilots over stretches as long as 18 hours. The most precarious moment occurred near the end of the voyage, over western Mexico, when the plane's rear engine, the only one running at the time, temporarily died. Over the next 90 sec., before the front engine was started to compensate for the loss, the craft plummeted from 8,500 ft. to about...
...cabin toward the cockpit, wildly shouting "Hey, hey, hey, hey!" A plainclothes security officer yelled, "Stop that!," but the battle between as many as four hijackers and half a dozen Iraqi security men had already begun. According to Passenger Dado, the first terrorist then lobbed a grenade into the rear cabin and another into the cockpit, wounding the pilot and co-pilot. Despite the damage to the aircraft, the injured pilot managed to keep it on course for 17 minutes, until he reached a remote desert airfield in northern Saudi Arabia, but he was unable to prevent it from breaking...
...thrasing of co-favorite Brown earlier this week placed Harvard firmly in the driver's seat in the Ivy race, but Princeton could be stubborn, especially in its home pool. Penn and Yale should finish in the middle of the pack, with Cornell, Columbia and Dartmouth bringing up the rear...
...Vinci and forever mussing his unkempt hair, Edwall gives the performance of a career. Too often in Bergman's films has he been relegated to the position of sideline eccentric; here, as the holy fool, he takes center stage. Edwall seems to take unending delight at sticking his rear at the camera; it's the least of his magic tricks in a role that has him walking through glass walls, pirouetting on a bicycle, and taking rabbit punches from passing evil angels. The only problem is that Edwall's Otto forever upstages the characters surrounding...