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...military bent over backward to explain Heck's actions. Some Pentagon staffers suggested that he might be suffering from combat fatigue. A senior Air Force officer implied that the heavy losses of B-52s during the strikes had finally frightened him. "There's some sympathy for that guy Heck," the officer allowed. "He was flying into the hairiest area of the world." But Heck himself said that fear had nothing to do with his decision. "If they tell me now to go on milk runs, the B-52 targets over South Viet Nam where nobody gets shot...
...believed. His circus catches and rifle arm were things of wonder. Two seasons ago, he saved a game against the Astros by making a diving, sliding catch of a humpback liner into short right. In the same inning he took off after a home-run ball, leaped, twisted backward and snared the ball as he slammed into the wall, injuring his ankle, knee and elbow. "He took it full flight and hit the wall wide open," marveled Astro Manager Walker. "It was the best catch I've ever seen." Clemente also possessed the strongest throwing arm of any outfielder...
Many Americans could be forgiven if they entertained a fantasy from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. Unstuck in time, the character named Billy Pilgrim runs a movie of World War II in his head-backward: "When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business...
...which Space Photographer Cernan went to achieve his goal are particularly apparent in one shot. To crowd his fellow moon walker Jack Schmitt, the U.S. flag and the distant earth into one small frame, Cernan had to drop to his knees in his stiff space suit and thrust himself backward so that the chest-mounted camera could be properly aimed. To obtain a view of Schmitt and a giant boulder, Cernan insisted on scrambling up an incline. He also aimed and re-aimed until he was finally able to squeeze into one frame the lunar rover, Schmitt and the startling...
...America's Cup Race; his sloop France, which he captained, got lost in the fog off Newport. He speaks in aquatic terms even when describing his company: "We just try to stick close to reality, like a surfer to his board. We don't lean forward or backward too far or too fast. We ride the wave at the right moment." Bic is now skimming along the crest of a 72% sales increase over the past five years. The baron hopes that with the disposable Bic lighter another big breaker may be in sight...