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...turboprop plane topped the pines in Jordan's Woods, cut a 30-ft. swath through the saplings, slammed into an oak tree 50-ft. tall. Both wings and all four engines were sheared off. Exploding fuel tanks set fires among the pines. The plane's tail, which had snapped off, hung eerily from a fog-shrouded tree...
...from the tail section that the only survivors came. "They came out from the fog and the trees," reported a farmer's wife, Mrs. Margaret Bailey, who heard the crash and drove to the scene. "One of them said, T am the Turkish Prime Minister. Quickly get help. There are others trapped...
...water with the terrified wildlife. A baboon weakened by hunger and privation can easily be captured by hand. Monkeys are more difficult, especially the vervets, who can swim underwater for as long as two minutes. The technique of capture is the same for both-one hand grabs the tail, the other the back of the neck. Otherwise the would-be rescuer is in danger of literally losing his face. The apes are then thrust into cages on the boats and later released on the shore of the lake...
When French Socialist Pierre Joseph Proudhon [1809-1865] inflamed the mobs of Paris with his "the great are only great because we are on our knees-let us rise!", he turned idealism into a bloodbath. So, too, misdirected Fidel Castro, not the head of a mob, but the tail that it wagged, becomes the latest 20th century champion of "People's Democracy...
...attacking the target . . . Target speed is 300 [kilometers-186 m.p.h.. I am going along with it. It is turning toward the fence . . . The target is burning. There's a hit . . . The target is banking . . . Open fire . . . 218, are you attacking? Yes, yes . . . The target is burning . . . The tail assembly is falling off the target . . . I am in front of the target . . . Look at him. He will not get away. He is already falling. Yes, he is falling. I will finish him off, boys, I will finish him off on the run. The target has lost control...