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...finale, the volcano blows its stack. Alas, the effects are ineffective. The outer-space sequences would be more appropriate in a grade school educational short entitled Our Amazing Universe, and the volcanic climax is a series of clumsy process shots that no one took the trouble to fix...
...address a Rotary convention. Witnesses backed his story. The only odd aspect to the case was that his own Karmann-Ghia had been found in running condition at the Los Angeles airport. That, said Kirschke, only solved another mystery. He had given the car to a mechanic to fix weeks before, and the mechanic had disappeared with...
...Harlan and his three colleagues, quite the opposite was true in the Butts case. Harlan pointed out that the Post had faced no deadline in preparing the "fix" article. Yet despite a denial from Butts, the magazine had taken not even the most elementary steps to verify its story. The original source had been an Atlanta insurance salesman and convict ed check forger, George Burnett, who was accidentally plugged into a phone call between Butts and Bryant. No Post reporter even looked at Burnett's notes of the conversation before the article was published. Nor did anyone interview...
...with 19," wrote a Marine Corps rifleman to his family after the battle. "Believe it or not, you know what killed most of us? Our own rifle. Practically every one of our dead was found with his [M16] torn down next to him where he had been trying to fix it." TV newsmen, in particular, took up the cry that U.S. troops were being betrayed by their own weapons. Last week two congressional subcommittees were studying the "M16 controversy...
...Atlanta bureau chief. When Harry died at 48 four months ago, his many friends at Miles discussed what sort of tribute to pay him. "Harry was not the kind of guy you sent flowers to," recalls Trustee Mrs. David Roberts III. "So I said, 'Let's fix up the bell tower and name it for him instead.' Harry always kidded us about how bad it looks...