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...emporium short-weighted hundreds of food packages. Even so, nobody expects Leonard's fall from grace to hamper the business. "We were packed today," chirps son Stew Jr. "Our customers are extremely supportive and sympathetic." And at Stew's, the customer is always right. It says so on the three-ton tablet of granite at the store's entrance. And it's firmly believed by the hundreds of positive-thinking Dale Carnegie graduates who work at the company. As Stew Sr. once said, "It's important to pass along our values to the staff...
...Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" The demand was made by Ronald Reagan as the then President addressed West Germans at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987. With Gorbachev's acquiescence, if not encouragement, the deed was done. Last week Reagan stood beside a three-ton chunk of the Berlin Wall, 9 1/2 ft. tall and 3 1/2 ft. wide, and called it "an unnatural, ugly, unwelcome, undeniable symbol of the oppression of communism...
...school buses stopping at creaking wooden bridges to let children walk across, then following behind to pick them up on the other side. In many cases, even this is risky for the driver of an empty bus. "We have a lot of ten-ton buses going across a three-ton bridge," says Clovis Fraser, a Georgia transportation official...
...bloodshed had only begun. Late that same afternoon a three-vehicle convoy of British soldiers moved along a highway just inside the Ulster border. On the one side was Narrow Water, a peaceful estuary of Carlingford Lough; on the other a golf course. When the convoy passed a trailerload of hay parked beside the road, a huge bomb exploded, blasting a three-ton army truck across the highway and spewing wreckage and human bodies into the air. Surviving paratroopers radioed for help, and a contingent of the Queen's Own Highlanders, including its commanding officer, Lieut. Colonel David Blair...
...conference championship game, Goldberg had another morale booster up his sleeve. Since his company had a contract to demolish a twelve-story building in Denver's downtown, Goldberg had the three-ton ball on his wrecking crane painted orange and hung a sign on the side of the building with OAKLAND painted in huge letters on it. A crowd of hundreds gathered to watch and cheer the destruction. The darker side: when a man walked into a bar and turned on the jukebox during a televised Bronco game, he got into a frenzied argument with irate fans, one of them...