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...bomb penetrated the frigate's midsection, where it failed to detonate. The ship limped slowly up the Bay of San Carlos, giving off smoke, and British bomb-disposal experts were sent aboard to see if they could defuse the bomb. The main assignment fell to Staff Sergeant James Prescott, 37, of the Royal Engineers. "One twitch, Dad, and you're dead," he had once told his father about his work. The bomb exploded and he died instantly...
...citizens while awaiting orders to move out. Falklanders are generous enough to offer the troops mutton broth, but are probably considerate enough not to offer them sheep's brains fritters, an island specialty and clearly an acquired taste. There was a widely distributed picture in Britain of Regimental Sergeant Major Laurie Ashbridge sipping from a mug of hot tea handed him by some smiling San Carlos women and children, shown leaning on a fence. When Ashbridge's wife Mandy saw the picture at her home in Tidworth, Hampshire, she remarked, "He never says no to a nice cuppa...
...REVEALED. Joe Sawyer, 75, paunchy, villainous character actor of more than 300 movies, starting in the 1930s, who bullied but finally succumbed to the likes of Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart in San Quentin and who later won fame with the video generation as the bumbling, comic Sergeant Biff O'Hara in TV's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin from 1954 to 1960; of liver cancer; in Ashland, Ore., on April...
...meter hurdles--1. Danville (BU) 50.6:2. Ward (BU) 51.5:3. Kirk (BC) 53.3. 800 meters--1. Neves (MIT) 1:50.8:2. Bunny (H) 1:51.4:3. Sergeant (NU) 1:52.2. 200 meters--1. Smith (BU) 20.8.2.8: 2. Garrick (BU) 21.2;3. Jones (H) 21.2. Polevault--1. Heyburn (NU) 16 ft. 0 in.: 2. Hutchinson (NU) 14-6:3. Yates (NU) 14-6. 5000 meters--1. Vona (BU) 14:50.3;2. Flynn (NU) 14:51.0;3. Conner (B) 15:02. 4 x 400-meterrelay--1. BU (Birigwa, Witcner, Ward. Danville...
...Tower of Pisa looming outside a window in "a neighborhood called Little Italy." Glance at the evening paper and you will not see a young couple walk through a "Japanese garden" filled with blank-faced nisei standing in planters. Raid the fridge and you will miss the visit Sergeant-Lieut. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) pays to a shoeshine wizard who knows everything about the Underworld-and about life after death, open-heart surgery and the fate of the Dodgers' pitching staff...