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...fury. Prison officials pleaded with them not to attack the cell block. Instead, the guards mutinied. "Let's go, let's kill these dogs," cried a guard, and nearly 100 men charged the cellblock, bayoneting and shooting the massed prisoners. When the twelve-hour bloodbath ended, the toll stood at nine guards and 15 prisoners dead, another 25 wounded...
...reports from the heart of the barren, remote land last week suggested that a Yemen guerrilla army of more than 30,000 fierce, leathery tribesmen at last was on the move against the rebels-and taking a deadly toll...
...peasouper dumped grit and grime over 22 counties, cocooned 125,000 miles of icy roads, and caused 20,000 automobile breakdowns. The worst fog that London has known since the "Black Death" that took 4,000 lives in 1952's December, it left 136 known dead (the final toll was expected to be much higher) and more than 1,000 gasping patients in hospital beds...
...whom the bells toll; they toll for first-class funerals...
...President Leon ("Jake") Swirbul, Grumman has been piloted by E. (for Edwin) Clinton Towl, 57, one of the six air-struck men who founded the company in a Long Island garage 33 years ago (among the others: Swirbul and Chairman Leroy Grumman, now 67). Quiet and unassuming, Towl (pronounced Toll) runs less of a one-man show than colorful Jake Swirbul did. When asked to name the big moment in his career, Clint Towl grins. "Tomorrow." With that LEM contract in his pocket, he is undoubtedly right...