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...whole factual cloth. From the disappearance of the Holy Grail to the attack on Pearl Harbor, many of history's great events have been marked by suspicions of connivance, corruption and conspiracy. Today, 34 months after the tragic event, a new web of doubt is being publicly spun around the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas...
Marichal later claimed that the ball had ticked his ear. He spun around, bat in hand. "Why you do that? Why you do that?" he screamed. Roseboro did not answer. He charged at Marichal, and in front of 42,807 witnesses at Candlestick Park, Juan clubbed him three times on the head with the bat, sending blood streaming down the catcher's face from a deep wound in his scalp...
...gunned his 500-h.p. rear-engine Offenhauser through one practice lap at 159.9 m.p.h.; now he was trying to top that. Drifting through the speedway's No. 1 turn, he was suddenly blinded by a bit of rag or paper that blew into his face. The car spun wildly, slid 450 ft. backward into the wall so violently that the starting shaft penetrated 5 in. into the concrete. Rodee died of a ruptured aorta-the 30th driver fatality at Indy...
Junior Larry Melfa spun a masterful one-hitter in the opener and sophomore Jim Sersich matched his whitewash in the nitecap. At the plate, sophomore Jeff Grate went wild, collecting eight straight hits...
...yeah." For one frenetic hour, Brown commanded the stage like a one-man riot. Stocky as a fireplug, hair teased into a luxuriant pompadour, he danced, preached, niugged, strutted and sang with a mounting intensity carefully calculated to inflame. Finishing one song, he turned his back and then suddenly spun around, grasped the microphone by the neck and fell to the floor moaning, "Please, please, please...