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...findings confirmed the estimate of U.S. and Canadian scientists that parts of the satellite had survived the searing 17,000-m.p.h. entry into the atmosphere and probably fell in a shotgun-like pattern over at least 200 miles. One of the biggest pieces found was a gray metal tube about the size of an office-building fire extinguisher that was discovered embedded in the ice of the remote Thelon River by two young Americans who happened to be on a research dogsled run through the Thelon Game Sanctuary. Scientists said that it emitted "moderate" radiation, and while they pondered whether...
...film is titled Foul Play, and that pretty much describes the way Actress Goldie Hawn is treated in the upcoming comedy-thriller. For her first picture in almost three years, Goldie clambers over a fourth-floor fire escape, straddles the rafters in a Los Angeles auditorium, and rides shotgun during a speedy car chase in hilly San Francisco. "It's v-e-r-y scary," says she. In fact, even a romantic love scene with Co-Star Chevy Chase had a few accidentally bad moments. When the pair started cuddling in front of a fireplace, burning embers ignited more...
...guess I didn't realize how much she had been drinking. She asked me to drive her home and I refused. We argued a bit further. She asked me again, 'Would you please drive me home?' I didn't want to--so I shot her. (Pause) With a shotgun. (Pause) Cut her right in half...
Finally Patri himself abandoned her, moving in with another woman. But, Mrs. Patri claims, he threatened to kidnap their two daughters or kill her, so she ordered a 12-gauge shotgun last February from a local store. A month later, when Patri arrived to take the girls on a day's outing, only Jennifer was waiting-with the loaded shotgun near by. "I was anticipating trouble," she admits. During an argument, she shot him in the back and head, buried his body in an adjacent smokehouse and later set her house on fire...
...property if any failed. The corps estimates that a full inspection to determine which dams need reinforcement would cost $367 million, but only $15 million is available under the 1972 law. Says Leo J. Ryan, chairman of a House environmental subcommittee: "Some of these dams are like a loaded shotgun pointed at the people downstream. There are any number of old, small dams that could give...