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Died. Nathan Homer Knorr, 72, third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the 105-year-old denomination also known as Jehovah's Witnesses; after a long illness; in Wallkill, N.Y. During his 35 years as president of the society, which believes that Armageddon is near at hand, Knorr helped build up its membership from 113,000 to 1 million, in 80 countries. A vigorous preacher, Knorr charged that organized religion was working the world's destruction by perverting the Bible's teaching...
...career took several spins and culminated in his final batting average .222. Pro interest has waned, to say the least, but the South Carolina bench was plenty excited when he broke his 1 for 16 CWS slump and swatted one long in the seventh, off the light tower in right. It looked like another in the CWS tradition of extra inning finales. And then another hero...
That was time enough. While the diversions went on, seven prisoners were making a dash for another section of the wall at the northern corner of the yard (see diagram). As usual during routine operations, the tower nearest to it was unmanned. The men erected a makeshift ladder crudely fashioned out of iron water pipes stolen from the prison's plumbing. Frantically, the men scrambled up the ladder and wiggled under the 2,300-volt electrified barbed wire that ran 18 in. above the top. At about that moment, all of the phones inexplicably went dead in the prison...
Indeed, all an infant has to experience is a totally new and alien environment, first contact with other beings, the mechanical coordination of his own four-limbed machine and the mastery of a foreign language without textbook! Paul High tower Lexington...
Averaging about two minutes a floor, George Willig, 27, climbed steadily up the northeast corner of the great south tower. He moved with a touch of éclat and a forthright manner that clearly indicated he knew what he was doing. An experienced mountain climber, Willig had been planning his adventure for a year. He had punctiliously taken a day of leave from his job as a designer for the Ideal Toy Corp., and was utterly confident that he would make it to the top of his own private Everest...