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...living in Wurzburg in southern Germany and studying at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary. I was supposed to have an exam on Nov. 10, the final one before I would have got my diploma that would have made me a Hebrew teacher. So on the ninth, I headed home early in the evening and went to bed at 9 so I would be refreshed the next morning. We had already heard a few days before about the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, an official at the German embassy in Paris, killed by a Polish Jew, and it was a very...
Chuck Yeager's two cracked ribs hurt like hell, but he was darned if a little tumble from a horse in the Mojave Desert was going to stop him from breaking the sound barrier. The U.S. Air Force was counting on him. It was his ninth flight in the experimental rocket plane XS-1, each one having edged closer to Mach 1, the never crossed barrier past which man would fly faster than the speed of sound. It was dangerous, he knew. A British test pilot had been blown to bits going Mach 0.94. The crew at Murdoc Air Base...
...intense flirting," flashed him the straps of her thong at a birthday party for a staff member that evening. Around 8 p.m., she passed adviser George Stephanopoulos' office, where Clinton was alone. He beckoned her in. The rest--though they never prepared us for this back in ninth-grade civics--is history...
...quest will begin, though, is still very much at issue. But amazingly, the Crimson—which wasn’t even assured of a berth when the weekend began—looks to be a No. 3 seed wherever it plays, which puts Harvard between the ninth- and 12th-highest ranked teams in the nation...
...boat of Bischoff and senior Lema Kikuchi and the D boat, piloted by junior John Mulcahy, had more difficulty and finished in eighth and ninth places, respectively...