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...trainload of napalm is riding the rails in limbo somewhere in the Texas-Oklahoma area today, after an Indiana company, under fierce bi-partisan bipartisan political pressure, withdrew its offer to recycle 23 million gallons of the incendiary substance. The Navy vowed to proceed with its plan to recycle the napalm stored at a California base, but there was no word on the immediate fate of the Indiana-bound shipment. Sure, this is like protesting a gasoline tanker, but pressure arising from the Vietnam-era associations forced Pollution Control Industries to back out of the deal...
...three Edgar Awards and occasionally lurching cheerfully off track with an unclassifiable detour, like Kahawa, which he claims is Swahili for "We couldn't think of a title." It's a caper tale, set in 1982, darker than Dortmunder, lighter than Parker, about some likable bandits who steal a trainload of coffee from Idi Amin, in Uganda...
...classic Warner Brothers cartoon "Bugs Bunny Rides Again," everyone's favorite wabbit is a bit more wascally than you might remember. In the course of a few minutes, Bugs rolls a cigarette, artfully dodges Yosemite Sam's bullets, and follows a trainload of scantily clad women to Miami. This kind of politically incorrect silliness would never be produced and marketed in the nineties...
...game in Dusseldorf. One contingent stopped long enough in Cologne to do some serious drinking, smash windows and beat up a few citizens. Twenty-two Englishmen were jailed. Meantime, throngs of rowdies roamed through Dusseldorf's cavernous main railroad station, drinking and gearing up for the game. When a trainload of German fans arrived, the station quickly became a battleground of fistfights and splintered chairs. Miraculously, there were no serious injuries, but 130 were arrested, about 90 of them English. This time, said Dusseldorf Police Chief Hans Lisken, "the English were not the instigators. The Germans started...
...mother took him down to the station in Galesburg, Ill., to see a trainload of doughboys. "All the windows in the cars were opened, and the soldiers were all waving out," he said. "I remember my mother lifted me up and I had a penny. I handed it to a soldier for good luck. I've often wondered who he was and if he had good luck...