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...last formal foothold on the continent this week. At a Sunday midnight ceremony in the decaying Red Sea city of Djibouti, a new flag of blue, green, white and red replaced the French Tricolor atop a floodlit pole at the high commissioner's residence overlooking the mud flats at the edge of Djibouti harbor. As a 21-gun salute boomed out and fireworks lit up the night sky, the French Territory of the Afars and Issas (T.F.A.I.) became the Republic of Djibouti, Africa's 50th independent state. The most notable visitor present at the celebrations: President...
...fastball clocked at 92 miles per hour, he began to stomp around the mound like Al Hrabosky's delinquent brother, screaming at the hitters when they so much as tapped mud out of their cleats. The Gamecocks went down submissively, as did the Salukis of Southern Illinois the next day, as the Devils pounded out 19 hits to avenge the earlier defeat...
...Here's mud in your...
Racing Royalty. Slew's four-length win in the mud was dominating, almost daunting. His pace on the off-track was 5 3/5 seconds slower than Secretariat's stakes record, but the win was electric in its ease: Slew loped over the 1½-mile course as if he were putting in a leisurely workout. He broke cleanly from the gate, and was headed only for a few seconds as the field sorted itself out for the grueling Belmont distance. When the call for the first quarter-mile came, he was rating gently on the lead, relaxed...
...entered college in the era of LBJ, the draft and Vietnam, and marched out at the time of Nixon, Cambodia, and Gulf in Angola, with the April 1969 bust and Kent State in between. What comes as a surprise is that the novel, The Shad Treatment, is about the mud and blood of a Virginia governor's race in the classic populist-versus-conservative mold, and that it's good...