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...didn't care about the ticket, the size of the fine, the justice of the arrest or anything else for that matter as I sat, annoyed, waiting for the cop to walk up to my window and ask for my license and registration. The only thing I was thinking about was how long it would take him to recognize my name and the amount of flak he was going to give me when...
...high-stakes game who announces an impossible bank shot involving awkward, oblique angles and chancy ricochets, and then does it. All over the country, people were impressed. Gil MacDougald of Atlanta thinks Iacocca is great, and has a plausible sociological explanation to boot. "In America," says MacDougald, a window washer, "people pull for underdogs and they just love a winner. Iacocca was both...
Suddenly two men on a motorcycle appeared behind the car, and the man on the back of the bike fired a pistol through the Volga's rear window. The panic- stricken chauffeur jammed on the brakes, allowing the gunman to pump more bullets through a side window of the car. Khitrichenko was hit four times--in the head, chest, neck and wrist; less than an hour later he was pronounced dead at Lohia Hospital. His wife and the driver sustained minor injuries from flying glass...
...From one window Alexander could see the 18th century Moscow Post Office, a structure that he invests with churning life. In a paean to the Mushroom Market on the banks of the Moscow River, the author offers pungent and densely textured scenes of ancient commerce, which have been fluently rendered by his niece, Ann Pasternak Slater. "Everything was primitively displayed in open barrels, the frozen carcasses of great fish simply laid straight on the snow," he writes. "Pickled, soused, and salted products stood in ranks . . . vats of bilberry, cranberry, cloudberry...
During a four-hour siege of the embassy, the three, who said they were members of the Armenian Revolutionary Army, took eleven hostages, including the Turkish Ambassador's wife and teenage daughter. To escape capture, Turkish Ambassador Coskun Kirca leaped from a second-story window, breaking an arm and a leg and cracking his pelvis. He lay briefly in the line of fire until a police officer could drag him to safety. Finally, police persuaded the three men to surrender. The attack was an attempt to force Turkey to acknowledge responsibility for the 1915 massacre of an estimated 1 million...