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...Radcliffe president suffered multiple fractures of the femur (upper leg bone) while getting out of car at Logan Airport...
...escape to life, let them taste their new world, then watch them scurry back to the comfortable and familiar. His comedy would be cruel if Brooks were not so good at playing the victims he concocts: so pompously thrilled as he rationalizes their lurches off the beaten track, so bone scared when things go awry. In Hagerty and Garry Marshall, the TV mastermind who plays a casino boss, he has glorious foils. Lost in America does not conclude; it merely ends, as if Brooks had run out of money or inspiration before he could think up a third...
...Amarillo, was an inveterate gambler who made and lost a fortune buying and selling oil ^ leases. He also wagered frequently on college football games. During the depths of the Great Depression, he drove around Holdenville in a dazzling Pierce-Arrow. Recalls Tommy Treadwell, a retired local banker: "Little T- Bone, as his father called him, was so embarrassed about that car that he insisted on being dropped two blocks from school whenever his father drove him there." Pickens' mother, by contrast, was a practical woman who never made snap decisions. During World War II, she ran Holdenville's gas-rationing...
...working area roughly the size of a baseball diamond, first by clearing the dense undergrowth and then by dropping to their hands and knees in shoulder-to-shoulder skirmish lines for a preliminary search of the area. Among the items unearthed were bits of human bones, a scattering of teeth and what the crews will describe only as "some personal effects." For the untrained, the bone fragments would be hard to recognize, often looking like nothing more than pieces of gray pumice the size of a cigar stub...
...using the maneuver as a way of gaining political or financial leverage. But political machinations are not important to the men who do the digging in the jungle. "We've got several more crash sites that we would like to look at," says Harvey. Behind him Laotian soldiers pluck bone shards from the sifting pans and hand them to a U.S. soldier who puts them in a canvas bag the size of a woman's purse. "But so far we've got one site and no more promises," says Harvey. "It's going awfully slowly...