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...sooner had the planes retired than three PT boats appeared from the northeast, spraying Liberty with machine-gun fire and launching two torpedoes, one of which found its target. It tore a 39-ft. wound amidships below the water line...
...black and white kimono jacket. Drankhan was on the floor, fully clothed. Each had a .38 slug in the head. They had been dead 43 hours. Investigators speculated that the killer had not meant to shoot Elaine, but that the first bullet caromed off Orville's forehead and tore into her temple. The prime suspect: Jack Kirschke...
When the zoo opened recently, cages seemed necessary after all-for the children. A first-day mob of more than 15,000 of them, fresh out of school and impatient after long delays at the gates, tore the place apart. They smashed hatching quail eggs, hurled rocks at the ducks, dropped baby turtles on their backs, pounded away on the shell of the Aldabra tortoise. A Nubian goat bleated in agony as it was pulled from both ends. The baby elephant ran off in terror. A peacock, its tail feathers sore after having been yanked for hours, bit a four...
Covering the Planet. Next came what Häusermann and his French architect wife call their "amusement period." Moving into a 32-room, 10th century castle outside Geneva, he experimented briefly with a flying saucer (it rose two feet off the ground before the propeller tore into a wall) and egg houses in plastic (little marvels that could sell for $1,500 that he calls "the perfect solution for weekends and vacations"). But Häusermann's parents' house proved such a conversation piece locally that he was soon inundated with orders for more, including seven concrete...
...over there," he says, "they might start shooting back." Duke knows. Last year, while touring a Marine encampment for the U.S.O., he heard the crack of Viet Cong snipers' rifles. "They were so far away," sniffs Wayne, "I didn't stop signing autographs." The bullets, in fact, tore up the turf within 17 yards...