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...Gloria's worst, for the most part suffered little but toppled poles and trees and smashed windows. All along the storm's route there were phone lines down, steeples and trees felled, cars bashed by limbs, roadways flooded, some roofs dislodged, boardwalks buckled, beaches undermined and eroded, small boats sunk, windows smashed. Bad enough, perhaps, but when contrasted with what had been expected, whew! again. New York City Mayor Edward Koch found his typically unique words to express the relief felt by almost everybody: "We scared the hell out of the hurricane, and it went elsewhere...
...superiors: General Jean-Michel Saulnier, Mitterrand's personal chief of staff when the surveillance scheme was conceived; General Jeannou Lacaze, then overall armed forces Chief of Staff; and Hernu. By most accounts, Mitterrand was not informed of the spying mission until a week after the Rainbow Warrior had been sunk. By that time the New Zealand police had arrested two French secret-service agents, Major Alain Mafart and Captain Dominique Prieur, who had been posing as a honeymooning Swiss couple. Charged with murder, arson and passport offenses, the two face a preliminary hearing in New Zealand in November...
...Mistaken for a clerk in a stereo store, she becomes an expert on audio equipment; when police confuse her with a member of the bomb squad, she proceeds to defuse an explosive device planted in a store basement. It is the sort of loony conceit that could be sunk by heavy-handed treatment. With the delightful O'Hara and just 22 minutes to tell the story, it floats along amiably...
...Crimson's season opens September 13 when the squad takes on Iona. The biggest challenge, however, will be provided by arch-rival Brown, which sunk Harvard last season to maintain its 10-year unbeaten string against the Crimson...
...fracture occurs when his cat gets stuck in a clothes dryer; his excited dog jumps on him, and he falls down the basement stairs while going to the rescue. A waitress insists that he check his crutches. Leaving the restaurant, he feels unexplainably crippled, "nearly doubled, his chin sunk low on his chest and his elbows jutting out awkwardly like the wings of a baby bird." It seems appropriate that he should look the way he feels, until an old woman points out that he has been given her much smaller crutches by mistake. Elsewhere, life imitates sitcoms. The Accidental...