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Fuel tanks became incendiary bombs, ejector seats blasted from burning planes, a superheated machine gun opened fire spontaneously, missiles detonated. "It was pure hell," said Chief Warrant Officer Bob Henderson, "just ungodly." Rob Burton, 21, one of the fire fighters, recalled: "The first explosion knocked down two whole hose teams." Added fellow Fireman Bob Barton: "There were some of us buried under wreckage. We went up with our hose but lost pressure." Another seaman remembered the shock of seeing casualties brought below deck from the holocaust: "My chief was on the first load from the elevator. He was missing...
...Princeton to claim the League title for the first time in 16 years. By winning the Ivies, the netmen gained Harvard's first berth on the NCAA Championship Tournament, held in Athens, Ga. In the opening round, Crimson aces Howard Sands, captain Don Pompan, Bob Horne, Warren Grossman and Rob Wheeler all faltered against third-ranked Pepperdine, and only third-seed Mike Terner salvaged a win in the singles competition...
...post-funny comics go a step further by taking the ironist's step back. By making fun of the obsequiousness and desperation found in the lower circles of show-business purgatory, they are chiseling epitaphs on epitaphs. They haunt cemeteries of frayed hopes and failed jokes; they rob graves of moldering bits of business; they read the requiem for popular entertainment. They are the children of television, the nephews and nieces of Vegas, the grandchildren of baggy-pants burlesquers-and they have turned on their elders with the fury of a patricidal Greek...
Only last week. Rob Sigal was moved from the j.V. to the varsity rower. Despite this handicap the boat turned in the fastest time in Harvard lightweight history for the 2000 meters...
Labor leaders contend that illegal aliens not only rob Americans of jobs but also lower wages and degrade working conditions, especially for workers at the low end of the payroll. The biggest losers, according to Otis L. Graham, professor of history at the University of North Carolina, are those who traditionally made their living in the sort of unskilled jobs taken by aliens. Dismiss those illegal workers, insists Graham, and not only will blacks win back their jobs but wages and safety standards will rise too. Says Graham: "I see illegal immigration as preventing the economic phase of the civil...