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...part of the mercenaries sought to leave the country by-sea in a number of boats which were sunk by the revolutionary air forces...
...forewarned of the general area where the landing would take place ("Someone committed treason," charged a council member), Castro had 10,000 troops on hand to meet the men coming up the track bed. Heavy artillery pinned the invaders down. The invasion ship carrying all the broadcasting equipment was sunk, and with it another landing craft. The Castro command threw its Soviet-built T-34 tanks into the fight; a dozen jets, some of them MIGs flown by Czech pilots, shot down five of the invaders' twelve B-26 bombers. Other Castro aircraft swept over the exposed troops...
Although the University reportedly filled in these fields with compressible slag after a flood in 1956, the fill has sunk so far into the former tidal area that drainage pipes, 30 feet apart, are almost literally supporting the entire area. Instead of allowing rainwater to drain off, the silt serves as a reservoir where seagulls have been known to nest...
Crimson captain Pete Smith overcame Pekary in a beat two out-of-three victory, 6-4, 6-2, 6-3, while Gary Adolman sunk Midshipman Karabasz...
...back to County Cork for his sweetheart, Kitty O'Neill. Kitty, second cousin of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, is better known to readers of The Snake Has All the Lines as "My Wild Irish Mother," a woman with an unquenchable sense of humor. "After all the money I've sunk in bronchitis," she said recently, "if I die of anything else, I'll shoot myself." For years she called her daughter "Biddy Jean," until a nun at Scranton's Marywood Seminary put a stop to it on the ground that the term biddy was an insult to Irish womanhood...