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...addition to his regular responsibilities, he took on the task of "managing domestic crises." He worked "literally round the clock for five days" on the Three Mile Island crisis, preparing for a possible evacuation of the area around the power plant. "The only plans we had tore on were old civil defense plans for what to do if the Russians came...
...poor Hans Strahl, stumbling innocent in blue smoke, who happened to be fair in line with the mouth of one of those cannons just when a charge of grape went off into his chest...As one ball of grape tore Hans's head off, others burst it into fragments and hanks of his dark hair were scattered wide. His entrails were scattered over the hillside, his left leg sundered into small lumps and his right thrown away to one side amongst Texans and strangers...
Goaltender Wade Lau, whose superb play has helped the squad to its current six-game unbeaten streak, strained or tore a ligament in his left knee during practice yesterday, and will miss this weekend's games at Princeton and Cornell...
...shredding things like mad. The militants brought one of our security officers to the door and said that if we didn't open up, they would execute him." The Americans obeyed and were quickly bound and blindfolded. When Jones muttered his name to a blindfolded colleague, a militant tore off the silver chain around Jones' neck. Says Jones: "He took my head, pulled it back and then smashed it into the wall...
...auto mechanic shop, study from midnight to 3 a.m., then go to bed and get up at 7 a.m. and start over again. He developed the ability to push on." He, in turn, taught the Eagles to push on. Says Tight End Keith Krepfle: "He tore us down mentally and physically and then built us up together. We all had the common experience of hard work. And Dick worked harder than anybody. The details, the little things he went over. All I can say is, we've paid our dues...