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...crowds to deliver off-the-cuff speeches. In Leningrad, a woman shouted to him, "Just get close to the people and they won't let you down." As the throng pressed in on him, Gorbachev shot back, "Can I get any closer?" In Kiev, he suffered a rare public slip of the tongue, twice referring to the country he leads as "Russia" before correcting himself to say "the Soviet Union, as we now call it, and as it in fact is." The mistake must have raised eyebrows and annoyed Georgians, Latvians, Uzbeks and Tatars as well as the Ukrainians...
...slip where the lighters used to moor (the ferry Ellis Island, scuttled by decay after logging 1 million nautical miles crossing to Manhattan, now lies beneath the water there), two deckhands on a workboat sprawl out sunning themselves. "Everywhere you look there's a study team combing over something. I'm surprised they ain't started strip-searching us yet. Everything's historic! Jeez, I bet I'd get busted if I tried to take a damn Coke bottle off this island...
...several chances to beat Gullikson, but let a 3-1 lead slip in the third set and thereafter had to fight for every point...
OPENING NIGHT FOR A dance show featuring 80 Cambridge school children was crazy enough without proud parents trying to work their way into Sanders Theater to catch a sneak preview. As the children practiced dance routines on stage with Harvard undergrads, one rosy-checked man managed to slip past my careful eye and quietly poked his head inside...
Certainly, Mengele had long displayed a gift for evasion. By the time Allied forces liberated Auschwitz in 1945, he had disappeared. In 1947 he was reportedly arrested by U.S. counterintelligence agents in Vienna, only to slip through their hands. Two years later, apparently after living quietly in Gunzburg, he made his way to Buenos Aires and thence to Paraguay. In 1960 he narrowly eluded Israeli agents. Since then, a number of sightings of him have been reported...