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...Orca, Quint's leaky craft, to bring the marauding great white to his reward. Ideal adversary that he is, the shark proves stronger and more wily than anyone suspected. The men go after him with rifles. They try to slow him down with barrels, fight him, tire him, tow him. In desperation Hooper descends below the surface in a shark cage (the sequence for which Carl Rizzo was hired), armed with a poison gun that will get the job done-if he can shoot it directly into the creature's mouth. The shark is not daunted...
...Vietnamese relatives. She and Mills joined forces, and in a frantic two days in Saigon they rounded up 16 of her kin as well as the 20 relatives of the two students from San Francisco and five of Mills' old friends. He also took in tow a stray missionary and a student. By offering to be their sponsor, and talking persuasively to both U.S. and South Vietnamese officials. Mills got all 43 of the people aboard U.S. C-141s bound for Guam-and safety...
...extensive whirlwind tour of educational, health and agricultural facilities developed during the Castro regime. Cabled Hannifin: "Amiable, wisecracking and radiating charisma and confidence, Castro as usual turned up unexpectedly and unannounced, at a state agricultural farm managed by his half-brother Ramon. There he took the McGoverns in tow, riding around in his Russian-built command car (with a special rack for his Kalashnikov rifle...
...were flown out of Viet Nam to Thailand by escaping South Vietnamese pilots (and then largely recovered by the U.S.), dozens of aircraft fell into the Communists' hands, including 72 F-5s and A-37 jets. In addition, the North Vietnamese military picked up numerous M48 tanks, supersophisticated TOW missiles, Jeeps, trucks and crates of rifles and machine guns...
...cutbacks have been the subject of tow months of controversy on the Brown campus, with committees and coalitions forming and reorganizing weekly and students staging the two largest student rallies of the 70s within a month of each other...