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...smashed with one of the boiler-wall bricks, his face crushed. Linda was raped four times and bashed with a brick. Their nude bodies, faces upturned, were found on the dank stone floor; their clothes, including Linda's black panties and Groovy's beat-up jacket, were neatly stowed in a corner...
...roster of the unimpressed includes Beban himself, who for anonymity's sake refuses to wear his letterman's jacket on campus. It does not, of course, include the pros. "I don't know anything about professional football," insists Coach Prothro, "and what's more, I don't care to know anything. But do they run the ball? Do they throw it? If they do, Beban should be just the sort of player they are looking...
...emphasize that truth, Carl Yastrzemski suddenly steps out into the players' parking lot dressed in jacket and tie. As the crowd roars, he shakes hands with Cardinal star Lou Brock, manages a weak smile, then climbs into his car. The huge screened gates swing into the crowd and Yaz slips off into the darkness. The lights above go out again...
Crawling out of his sandbagged bunker, the helmeted Marine blinks in the afternoon light, cocks his head for a moment, listening intently, and then starts jogtrotting down the hill. With frayed trousers flapping and a cumbersome flak jacket jiggling against his bare chest, he makes his way through the debris of cartridge boxes and C-ration cans. Deep, viscous red mud sucks at his boots and oozes up to his knees as he struggles down the slope. Suddenly, from high above, comes a familiar, chilling whine. "Incoming!" someone yells, and the leatherneck flattens himself in the mud. The artillery shell...
Meals are served three times a day in an underground bunker, but only to five men at a time-so that there will never be too many men in the same place in the event of a direct hit. No one ventures above ground without his flak jacket and helmet, although most Marines carry their helmets and go bareheaded in order to hear incoming shells better. The first warning is the boom of the gun across the Ben Hai River separating the two Viet Nams. Then comes the quavering whistle of the shell tearing through the air, followed quickly...