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...excited, too. Heck, so do I and I'm no kid." Against Dallas last season, Rookie Halfback Bob Gaiters took a hand-off from Tittle, dawdled too long before hitting the line, and was dumped for a loss. Tittle knelt beside Gaiters pounded the ground with his fist and screamed: "That's the last time you do that! Next time, bust in there!" Replied the chastened rookie...
...boss of London's Philharmonia Orchestra, Klemperer is regarded as the master of the 19th century romantics -Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner. Last week's concert demonstrated why. Seated on a high wooden chair, his right hand clenched in a fist, Klemperer led the Philadelphia through performances of Beethoven's Eroica and Pastoral symphonies that were wonders of clarity and searching detail. Under Klemperer, the familiar, voluptuous Philadelphia sound faded away; the orchestra sounded lean and meticulously responsive as it played at tempi more deliberate than any other conductor would dare use (the New York Times's Harold...
Although the Berkeley meeting started off with violent anti-Kennedy speeches, reporters for the Daily Californian said the mood of the meeting changed as pro-Kennedy students joined the throng. Heated arguments in the crowd at times threatened to explode into fist fights...
...Cover) The Democratic candidate for Gover nor of Pennsylvania is a proudly emotional man. His right fist punches the air, a forefinger lashes out, his face flushes furiously beneath his silver hair. Philadelphia's former Mayor Richardson Dilworth. all atremble, stammers slightly and the savage words about his opponent spill out: "My family on both sides were here long before those robber barons of his showed up. His family sold out their interests in Lackawanna County and then moved out their money . . . This man who claims to be a gentleman . . . this Little Lord Fauntleroy . . . this Ivy League Dickie Nixon...
...U.S.S. Bainbridge was steaming up the Yangtze River in 1912 when Commodore Mark Hersey got a desperate message to hurry below. He found a crewman with his fist in a hole in the side of the ship-holding back the Yangtze's waters. While scraping paint, the sailor had punched a hole clear through the tinny sides of America's first destroyer. Recalls Hersey: ''We stuffed a potato in the hole, covered it with concrete and prayed...