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...their well-fortified Calivigny barracks when it called for Navy air help. Their position was close to an abandoned Cuban antiaircraft gun that still pointed toward the sky. From the air it looked like the intended target. "All of a sudden the world blew up," said Lieut. Scott Schafer, who was hit by shrapnel when the Corsair fired. Twelve paratroopers were wounded. As the plane banked for another strike, a ground officer reached the pilot by radio to warn it away...
...first few minutes, the home team took a quick lead, with defenseman Steve In gle hart slamming one home from the point right off a face off and with the Big Red pummeling every Crimson jersey in sight. But after blueliner Mike Schafer put Burke on the ice for several minutes with a devastating check, the Crimson started skating and turning away from the Big Red hits...
...remaining singles competition on Saturday second-seeded senior Captain Adam Beren crushed Penn's Rich Schafer, 6-1, 6-1, while the Crimson's third-ranked senior Alex Seaver ran past Dave Friedman, also giving up only one game each set. In addition, fifth-seeded Rob Wheeler and sixth-seeded Rob Loud enjoyed effortless straight-set victories over Steve Hazen and Adam Deakin, respectively...
...Miller High-Life franchise and the North Carolina legislature started it all. Alan Schafer, who owned the South Carolina rights to Miller, knew a lot of people would be thirsty by the time they had come clear across North Carolina, then dry as two-year-old tobacco. "He wanted to get into the retail beer business, and this (five feet, if that, south of the state line) seemed an advantageous location," Holliday says. "He was businessman enough to adopt the name," and later invented Pedro, the Mexican figure that serves as mascot, Holliday adds. "He never intended...
...vacation," Holliday insists. He adds, though, that some changes are in the works: "Our chief aim is to change the face of South of the Border, to make it more of a destination than a stopover." Some families have been coming here for 20 years, and Mr. Schafer, presumably would like to see more. "We intend to upgrade the amusements, get something to hold people longer," Holliday says...