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...came to the office with what he said were ticket requests from the players. He had to knock on the door for three minutes before they even answered him (Wadaya want?). Another minute of arguing before they let him in (We ain't got no tickets for you). But he got his tickets. A third person, obviously an ancient athlete, who knew the man at the window by first name, said his tickets had been reserved by...(another first name) and got them immediately. Another man went back to get tickets for Saturday's game and came out soon saying...
...J.F.K.: Knock, knock...
...Hail, the Gang's All Here. I continued with the phrase, 'What the hell do we care.' Well, I can tell you, it didn't sit well with Johnny. He came up to me, white-faced and righteous, and told me to stop. I think he was ready to knock my block...
...your job or not. Sniveling is perfectly legitimate, and Johnny is a great hand at it." In 1957 Glenn sniveled the Marines into letting him try to beat the speed of sound from coast to coast. Flying an F8U, Glenn failed by nine minutes, but he did knock 23½ min. off the coast-to-coast speed record by covering the distance in 3 hr. 23 min. at an average speed of 726 m.p.h...
...Ernest Rutherford first demonstrated nuclear reaction. Then Sir James Chadwick discovered the neutron; others have gone on to everything from the kinetic theory of gases to isolating the insulin molecule and piercing space with radio astronomy. "When it comes to research," says one Cavendish man. "we knock Oxford...