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...Charlie Root, who served up the pitch. Motorcyclists have long gathered amid the rolling hills outside town for rallies and roguery. Back in 1947 the bikers rumbled into Hollister and lounged around the main street until some boys from the Elks' Lodge poured beer on them from their second-floor meeting room. The infuriated bikers terrorized the town, riding their cycles into bars and through the lobby of the old Hartman Hotel. The tumult inspired a Marlon Brando movie, The Wild...
...police outside started up a bulldozer to cover the sounds of what was to come, the squad rushed quickly to the second-floor apartment of Emanuela Frascella, 21, a history student at the University of Venice and a Red Brigades terrorist. One commando opened the steel-reinforced door of the apartment with a skeleton key, and his colleagues burst inside. In the hallway they encountered Giovanni Ciucci, 32, a Red Brigades member, who had heard the key turn in the lock and was rushing, pistol in hand, to investigate. Before he had a chance to fire, one of the leatherheads...
...brown frame house with the green picket fence sits amid a clump of fir trees on a hill overlooking the writers' colony of Peredelkino, 15 miles southwest of Moscow. There, in the sparsely furnished second-floor study, Boris Pasternak wrote some of the greatest Russian poetry of the century and Doctor Zhivago, the epic saga of Russian life, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. On a nearby hillock, surrounded by three pine trees, is the grave where Pasternak was buried after his death from cancer in 1960. Since then, the house...
...aides had shepherded 75 of the 100 Senators to the White House to hear the presidential pitch in person; 44 had been closeted with Reagan in one-on-one sessions, 17 between Monday morning and 2 p.m. Wednesday. Then when the last, Arkansas Democrat David Pryor, left the second-floor study, Reagan suddenly found himself with nothing left to do to influence the vote. He spent the last three hours reading and chatting with Nancy and aides. He went downstairs to the Oval Office a few minutes before 5 p.m. to await the tally...
Workers recently completed a renovation project at the old Radcliffe Gymnasium, making room for new offices and changing a second-floor basketball court to a dance floor...