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...reasonable price, a child who must shortly be sent to Princeton. He names it Yonder (that's the easy part), learns to hoist anchor, percolate about the harbor, and dock again. Also to sail a bit, and what to do when the diesel fails: call for a tow, then call the diesel wizard, then deploy checkbook. After several seasons of costly maintenance, Coomer's master shipwright assumes a long face, reports rot and says the author had better decide how much he loves the boat...
...five U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopters swooped down on the Croatian village of Prevrsac, and out of one climbed U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright with a gaggle of reporters and cameramen in tow. She had just given President Franjo Tudjman a public lecture in Zagreb for failing to live up to the peace accord that ended the Yugoslav civil war 18 months earlier. In Prevrsac, standing, with cameras rolling, in front of a burned-out Serb home, she dressed down one of Tudjman's ministers over Croatian attacks against returning refugees. "It's disgusting," Albright snapped. Secretaries of State usually...
...sudden surge in popularity? An RV is a classic '90s sensible luxury item. At the low end of the tow end, trailers start with a $3,000 folding-camper model. At the high end, $80,000 buys a luxury liner (a "fifth wheel" in RV argot) replete with mechanical slide-out rooms, ceramic kitchen tile and Whirlpool bath. And they fit nicely behind that other '90s sensible luxury item, the sport utility vehicle...
...Mercury in Oklahoma City and then Nichols drove him back to the Dreamland. Several people saw the car parked near the Murrah building before the bombing. Prosecutors will introduce a handwritten note McVeigh left on the car saying it had a bad battery, ensuring that no one would tow...
KEEP ON TRUCKIN' Vintage vehicles at Chattanooga's International Towing & Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum remind us that in America's love affair with the auto, the humble tow truck has been the car's faithful attendant...