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...minute heartwarming chat. His watchful eye and instant charm combine to woo that special type of person who might actually be swayed by the flattery of special attention. He will pass up a stream of people gushing from a crowded bus and go twenty or thirty feet away to shake hands and have a few words with some lonely figure watching him shyly from afar...
Despite the change, Keating has been unable to eliminate the image of the past. He is not the magnetic, crowd-drawing candidate that Bobby Kennedy is. Keating can walk from Madison Square Garden onto Seventh Avenue without a soul stopping him to shake his hand or ask for his autograph. He can go to a state Baptist convention in the Bronx to find that scarcely 100 people have showed up to hear him in a hall that would seat four or five times that many...
...than Australian Ron Clarke's world record. And for half the race, there was Clarke striding rhythmically, effortlessly around the track, burning out his challengers. With a badly twisted ankle, Gerry Lindgren was struggling just to finish, and the crowd in National Stadium waited patiently for Clarke to shake the other also-rans: Tunisia's little Mohamed Gamoudi, Ethiopia's Mamo Wolde-and Billy Mills. But on and on they went, matching stride for stride, lapping stragglers, jockeying for position. Clarke was in front going into the final lap. Incredibly, Mills was right behind, and so were...
...Days dates back to 1909. By the early 1930s, the races were often rigged, and they attracted the booted whores and gaudy gangsters who gave Berlin its cynical, sinful aura. Left-wing Playwright Georg Kaiser described the Sportpalast scene in those days: "Inhibition has gone to hell. Cutaways shake. Shirts tear. Buttons pop in all directions. Differences flow away. Nakedness where there used to be disguise: passion. It's worth it-this brings profits...
...jumpers" of President Kennedy's 1960 campaign. The squeals of delight from teenage girls often sounded as if it were The Beatles and not the President who had arrived in town. The mobs greeting the Presidential plane were so enthusiastic that they were often satisfied merely to shake the hand of the driver of the press bus--as long as it was someone "with" the President...