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...will also find tips in Rags on where to buy surplus U.S. Navy nurses' uniforms, French navy underwear, Australian army shorts, handmade American Indian buckskin boots, T shirts appliqued with a Flash Gordon thunderbolt, sheets imprinted with "acts of love," and the "perfect confrontation accessory"-imitation police truncheons "in gentle pastel shades...
...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is led by a radical Arab Christian physician named George Habash, an exponent of terror tactics against civilians, including children. In the small town of Zarka, twelve miles north of Amman, quarrels broke out between guerrillas and soldiers of the Saiqa (Thunderbolt) Regiment, a unit especially faithful to Hussein. Both sides were armed, and the confrontation quickly expanded into episodes of violence. By the time it ended, nine fedayeen and civilians had been killed, along with 13 soldiers. As hysterical funeral corteges wound through Zarka, the guerrillas' Voice of Asifa radio...
Tough-minded as a Greek tragedian, Newby hits a poor anti-hero with every thunderbolt from Olympus. What keeps him from really being a literary sadist is the confidence he conveys to the reader that Townrow, like men generally, has what it takes for bare survival...
...following excerpts from "De Loon's Practical Guide to the Passing on of Knowledge," by the late Hadley Warner De Loon (1883-1968), Jane Thunderbolt Professor of Arts and Crafts, are here reprinted as a public service. We have long suspected the existence of such a document, but only recently came into its possession--after a fruitful journey through the De Loon family crypt. Not wishing to shake the Harvard community unduly, we propose to break the contents of this remarkable work over a series of installments, of which today's is merely the first...
...York Times. In it, the physicist boldly denounces major aspects of Soviet policy and practice, goes so far as to urge an East-West "convergence" to provide a safe and single world leadership. It is, as Library of Congress Kremlinologist Leon Herman said, "a thunderbolt"-not only for what it says but because of its origin in the very bosom of the Soviet elite...