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When militants stormed the American embassy 73 days later, Jones and other staffers rushed to a vault, locked the door and began destroying sensitive documents. Says Jones: "I was shredding things like mad. The militants brought one of our security officers to the door and said that if we didn't open up, they would execute him." The Americans obeyed and were quickly bound and blindfolded. When Jones muttered his name to a blindfolded colleague, a militant tore off the silver chain around Jones' neck. Says Jones: "He took my head, pulled it back and then smashed...
Ever since the Ewings of Dallas helped vault CBS back to the top of the ratings, the networks have raced into prime-time domestic cliffhangers. There are now four such series on weeknights: Dynasty, Mondays, ABC; Flamingo Road, Tuesdays, NBC; Knots Landing, Thursdays, CBS; and Dallas, Fridays, CBS. As if four hours of hot passions and cold revenge, old money and dirty money, macho patriarchs and mysterious paternities, good people worrying about, doing right and bad people having fun doing wrong were not enough, ABC has reserved three nights (Sunday, Monday and Wednesday) next week for an adaptation of John...
Construction had started on Yale University's new Seeley G. Mudd Library. But inflation was exceeding expectations, and Yale needed to find another $1.5 million as the projected construction cost grew to $6.7 million. Meanwhile, resting virtually unseen in a library vault was the Yale coin collection's most famous gold piece, a 26-gram doubloon struck in 1787 by New York Goldsmith Ephraim Brasher...
...goes something like this. Boy (aforementioned thoughtful hunk) meets girl (aforementioned betrothed, also brainy knock-out). Sex, love and marriage ensue. He begins spending time in an isolation tank (a dark and clam vault of salt water). Intrigued by initial effects, he wants to explore further. So he ventures (reasons unexplained) to Mexico, where he visits a tribe that drinks a special potion during ceremonies. He tries potion. "Genetic regression" ensues...
...poem cycle became an organic reflection of its author as he journeyed through the. South, the Great Lakes, the Hudson Valley, to Washington, where he cared for the Civil War's wounded and dying, and finally to Camden, N.J., where he erected a roughhewn burial vault to house his bones and those of his family. In a sense Whitman's entire life was an act of ingathering and what Kaplan calls "a demonstration of the regenerative power of personality, change and language." The biographer himself is to be congratulated for renewing the poet and his Leaves of Grass...