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...going down." Eileen Weldon of nearby Darien, driving alone in her car, sailed off into the dark river too and survived. The Paces, seriously injured, were snatched out of the water by a fisherman who had been asleep in his boat. "I heard all kinds of noises," said the rescuer, Billy Ebrech. "I heard screaming and yelling...
Similarly, Allegheny International played rescuer to Sunbeam in late 1981, saving it from takeover by IC Industries, Inc. Soon, however, Sunbeam Chief Robert Gwinn and 160 of his colleagues found themselves out of jobs. Complained one executive: "They went at us with a meat ax. If Allegheny is a white knight, God save us from white knights." But Allegheny has complaints too. Chairman Robert Buckley said he discovered in Sunbeam "problems under the surface that were greater than they seemed...
...Marxist offshoot of the outlawed I.R.A. with allegedly close ties to Eastern Europe, claimed credit for the blast, one of the worst incidents in the province since the current bombing campaign was launched more than a decade ago.* The result was hardly creditworthy. "It was carnage," said one rescuer. "Mutilated bodies were lying everywhere." Said the wife of the local pharmacist: "Bodies were strewn all around, and injured survivors, some with ghastly wounds, staggered about in a state of shock." Others told of carrying out victims who had lost limbs, while doctors from Londonderry, 14 miles to the northeast, worked...
...rest of the world. The convergence of Greenwood and General Yang poses a threat to that secure isolation. Eventually, Pawlu is surrounded by a group of mutinous Chinese soldiers and a marauding band of headhunters. Greenwood must choose between defending the village or earning lasting fame as the rescuer of the Peking Man. The Blue-Eyed Shan completes a trilogy of novels set in the Orient that the author began with The Chinese Bandit (1975) and The Last Mandarin (1979). The new book stands on its own but also adds considerably to the vivid pageant of the East that Becker...
...gentle space elf who at first glance seems as homely as a turtle without its shell yet eventually proves as beautiful as an enchanted frog, must find a rescuer. And the rescuer must be a child, whose Galahad strength only E.T. and the moviegoer can immediately discern. The child is Elliott (Henry Thomas), a thin, quiet, wise-faced lad of ten who makes initial contact in a time-honored American fashion: by playing catch with a softball. With the help of his older brother Michael (Robert MacNaughton) and younger sister Gertie (Drew Barrymore), Elliott must battle the elements and some...