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• Failed Attempts To Break Records In September 1978 Mr.
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  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• The Least Successful Animal Rescue The firemen's strike of 1978 made possible one of the great animal rescue attempts of all time.
  Valiantly, the British Army had taken over emergency firefighting and on 14 January they were called out by an elderly lady in South London to retrieve her cat which had become trapped up a tree....
• The Man Who Almost Invented The Vacuum Cleaner The man officially credited with inventing the vacuum cleaner is Hubert Cecil Booth.
  However, he got the idea from a man who almost invented it....
• The Worst Lines of Verse For a start, we can rule out James Grainger's promising line
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  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• The Least Successful Police Dogs America has a very strong candidate in "La Dur", a fearsome looking schnauzer hound, who was retired from the Orlando police force in Florida in 1978.
  He consistently refused to do anything which might ruffle or offend the criminal classes....