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Swint, his chauffeur and one bodyguard were killed and the other bodyguard was critically wounded before any of them could use their guns. A blond youth was seen administering a coup de grâce with a machine gun to Swint as he lay dying. The terrorist commandos then broke up and fled before police arrived...
...still works in ceramics, an art he practically revolutionized in a col laboration with Pepito Artigas that began in 1944. They decided that ce ramics should be monumental and pro duced major works like the double free standing walls at UNESCO headquarters in Paris...
...green and gold sari to prepare herself for the adulation of her fans. But the crowd, whom she had kept waiting for 90 minutes, had other ideas. They booed, hissed and hurled insults at her, and the local paper delivered the coup de grâce the next day. "She is old," it declared, "and the complications of her sentimental life have taken their toll...
There are far more interesting phenomena that are happening in Cambridge 200,000 times. One thinks of Julia Child's 200,000th crepe suzette, or John Finlev's 200,000th letter of recommendation, or Harry Parker' 200,000th ce-cold morning on the river, or B and G's 200,000th lost man-hour, or ex-Dean Dunlop's 200,000th committee meeting--each must be nearing the mark about now. Far more interesting. John Paul Russo Assistant Professor of English
...rate of $35 an ounce-in exchange for dollars that foreigners wished to cash in. But as foreigners piled up almost $50 billion in U.S. currency, while the U.S. gold stock melted to $10 billion, that pledge became hollow. Nixon gave it the coup de grâce on Aug. 15 by decreeing that the U.S. would no longer redeem foreign-held dollars for gold...