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Captain McCullers could not make it. His plane struck a power line, veered farther to the left. Spewing balls of fire into the air, it tore through four blocks of Kenner and exploded into bits of charred metal. Thirteen houses were leveled. The plane's nose smashed into one house, skidded through a vacant lot, caromed through two more blocks. The tail with its Pan Am insignia plowed to a stop in someone's yard; it was the only section of the plane still intact...
...flat recital continued through the 13 assault, murder and weapons counts. ". . . On count five, not guilty by reason of insanity." That was for the bullet into the stomach of Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy. ". . . On count seven, not guilty by reason of insanity." For the bullet that tore through the brain of James Brady, the once ebullient press secretary. ". . . On count ten, not guilty by reason of insanity." For the bullet into the neck of Police Officer Thomas Delahanty. Judge Parker's voice, usually calm and assured, began to quaver. ". . . On count twelve, not guilty by reason of insanity...
Coming from a high school team in Memphis which used six players on a team, Denise tried out for Harvard basketball without ever having "shot a basketball before in my life." On the junior varsity her freshman year, Williams tore her right knee ligament in the middle of the season. She only saw action a few times but says her play improved steadily towards the end of the season. Denise says that some "would question their career in basketball" after a season like that, "but not me. I love the sport...
...executives knew that the bust was coming. Most of the stunned employees at Colony first heard the news on radio or TV. In Battlement Mesa, a half-finished company town built by Exxon, a few furious workers immediately went on a rampage. They overturned garbage cans, tore down company-owned fence and fired shotguns through the windows of their company-owned trailer homes. In the town of Parachute, 15 miles from the Colony site, men piled into O'Leary's Pub and the Old Bank Saloon, where they drank, pounded on the tables and broke into fistfights. Others...
Harvard suffered a number of casualties during the game Former captain John Dorgan pulled out a halftime with a charley horse Sophomore Gus Spanos broke his leg tore ligaments in his ankle and now wears a cast from ankle to crotch...