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...idea, I must confess, is not original. Recently, a wild boar attacked a Pakistan Air Force F-16 as it was taking off and, according to UPI, the animal knocked off the nosewheel. Although the pilots ejected safely, the $30 million plane was completely destroyed when it crashed on the runway as a result of the attack...

Author: By John M. Glazer, | Title: Boar Wars | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

...proving that she's got all of Pakistan behind her. Or could it be that some Indian militarists hired a dissident on a freelance basis? We'll never really know who put the animal up to it; impervious to General Zia's customary interrogations by torture, the boar is keeping...

Author: By John M. Glazer, | Title: Boar Wars | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

...existing except to provide a contracted actress with a job for the evening. And in a few instances Serban gives in to the urge to be maddeningly and incongruously ambiguous, as when he has two characters enter from a glowing portal set in a huge tapestry depicting a boar hunt. You think of the Juniper Tree rhinoceri and shake your head...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: Curtain Call: | 2/20/1987 | See Source »

Dichotomies abound in Vincent Edward Jackson, 23, nicknamed Bo for the resemblance he once bore to a boar. As a boy, Jackson was a bully with a gentle streak. At Auburn, he seemed as apt to persevere with a separated shoulder as to demur with a tender hamstring. "You wouldn't call him a gung- ho practice player," Coach Pat Dye recalls fondly. "I'm sure it was like work to him, but it never looked that way. Baseball thinks Rickey Henderson is fast. They're going to find out what speed is. Speed, size, grace, courage. He had everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bo's Going to Follow His Dream | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

Locally they are known as "scraphogs," and a few wear T shirts with a cartoon of a wild boar grinding a bomb in its teeth. Just after dawn each day, about 40 gather at the hillside, pick up pails and sift through the dirt and sagebrush for rusted metal and twisted steel. They occasionally dig up the nozzle of a Polaris missile or the casing of a 1,000-lb. bomb. Under the pitiless Nevada sun, each averages 1,000 lbs. of scrap metal a day. "It's rough work," says Billy Marshall of Hawthorne, Nev. "When I started, young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scraphogs Invade Hawthorne | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

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