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Italian Americans, after he cracked in 1974 that the Pope should not oppose birth-control programs because "he no playa da game, he no make-a da rules." But when he tried to impress John Dean and Pat Boone, it was Earl's last laugh...
...attend 60 games a season. Nightly I pleaded with Bowa to lob one to the upper deck before the game began. I would sneak peaks between sales. But mostly I cheered. I was into the works: Billion dollar scoreboard, clapping hands, ear-piercing organ, Mexican hat dance, Hava Negila, Da, Da, Da Dump Pa Da; Charge...
...spontaneous combustion," Comden says of their composition. Green revealed a little more of the reworking that went into songs that play effortlessly now. "Sometimes you have a great tune. Lenny had this theme: da da dee, da da dum, -- Green picks the tune out on his chair--"and for a long time it was known in New York living rooms, very much to our embarrassment, as da da dee, da da dum. And then we found the phrase: 'Just in time...
...trip may have seemed as long and arduous as any expedition of Vasco da Gama, but the last leg of Portugal's journey from dictatorship to democracy was smooth sailing. Braving oppressively hot 90° weather, some 5 million Portuguese went calmly to the polls last week and, by an overwhelming margin, chose General António Ramalho Eanes (TIME, June 21) as their first democratically elected President in 50 years...
Trail of Rape. Chief Judge Ernesto Texeira da Silva, in declaring the sentences, coldly described the mercenaries as "dogs of war with bloodstained muzzles who left a trail of rape, murder and pillage across the face of our nation." Four men were condemned to death: Costas Georgiou, 25, the notorious Cypriot-born Briton who, as "Colonel Tony Callan," had ordered 13 of his own men shot; Andrew McKenzie, 25, Georgiou's second in command, who had helped execute the men; John Derek Barker, 35, another Briton; and Gearhart. The other nine, including two Americans, Gary Acker, 21, of Sacramento...