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...grenade thrower dashed back to the truck. grabbed an automatic weapon from the seat, turned again and began firing as he charged toward the stand. The three other uniformed men jumped from the back of the vehicle to join him, sprinting toward the dais and unleashing a torrent of automatic-weapons fire as they rushed ahead with shouts of "Glory for Egypt, attack...
...trillions. They will either set a new record for yield, more than 127 bu. per acre, or come so close it hardly matters. And the soybeans, with almost human cunning, are making quite a show of their last 6 in. of growth. Forecasters expect them to disgorge a torrent of protein and set their own record, more than 39 bu. per acre...
...traffic snarls and competition from suburban newspapers and local television news. Those hurdles proved insurmountable. Tonight received a huge injection from a $20 million News revitalization fund, but its circulation, headily projected at 300,000, finally slumped to 70,000. The News's profits gave way to a torrent of red ink: even with Tonight folded, the paper expects to lose $11 million this year. Said Publisher Robert Hunt: "We went all out to produce the liveliest, most interesting editorial package we could and, damn it, it didn't work. It was a bad marketing plan. We made...
...riderless stallion, the orange fire truck rolled slowly toward the cemetery in Panama City last week, bearing a flag-draped coffin that was topped by a distinctive canteen, bush hat and gun holster. At the grave, a 21-cannon salute boomed as the coffin was lowered amid a torrent of flowers. Thus did Panama bid farewell to its strongman, Omar Torrijos Herrera, who was killed when his plane crashed four days earlier...
...feared heart attacks, even though cardiologists could find nothing wrong with him. Walker assumed the problem was psychosomatic, but could not get the man to talk freely. One day Walker happened to ask him how he felt about the running horse photograph, and the image provoked a sudden torrent of rage against the man's neglectful father that he had previously been unable to express. "The picture clearly triggered this awareness," says Walker. "As he began to deal with his own rage and anger, the pains began to subside and eventually left...